Spotlight session - Adopting Team Topologies in a data-centric SaaS

Spotlight Session
Written By ConfluxHQ Admin

Understand the key principles and practices for fast flow in a data-centric SaaS context. Explore how Team Topologies can help to provide clarity and a fresh perspective to team interactions for MLOps. Accelerate your adoption of fast flow for data services.

Price: 18000 GBP

 
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Adopting Team Topologies in a data-centric SaaS

3x 2 hour online sessions

Product code: P641j

 

Product details:

  • Product name: Spotlight session - Adopting Team Topologies in a data-centric SaaS

  • Product code: P641j

  • Product type: Spotlight session

  • Format: online session

  • Schedule: 3x 2-hour sessions

  • Suggested attendees: Engineers (both data and software engineers), data scientists, data analysts and managers involved in building and evolving the products and services

  • Number of attendees: up to 15 people

Price: 18000 GBP

All sessions from Conflux are co-designed with Matthew Skelton, co-author of the book Team Topologies.

What the Spotlight session is about

Data-centric products and services - especially when run as SaaS - are a key part of the modern digital ecosystem. However, due partly to the challenges around data volumes, organizations building and running data-centric SaaS offerings have lagged behind other SaaS organizations in terms of practices for fast flow.

This Spotlight session focuses on the principles and practices of Team Topologies, continuous delivery, cloud-native, and software operability in the context of data-centric SaaS and Data Mesh. It covers how to apply these concepts to create composite data services and bring together Data Engineering, Data Science, and MLOps in end-to-end machine learning teams.

Data Mesh - founded on the four key principles of domain ownership, data as a product, self-service data platforms, and federated governance - represents an industry shift in how we collect, serve, and manage data. 

Who the Spotlight session is for 

This Spotlight session is ideal for organizations that want to increase their data self-service capabilities and improve the speed and effectiveness of their data delivery processes. It is particularly relevant for those who want to bring together data scientists, engineers, and MLOps in end-to-end machine learning teams and apply Team Topologies and fast flow patterns to their work.

What benefits to expect

  • Overview of the key technical practices to enable fast flow.

  • Understanding of how Team Topologies helps with fast flow.

  • Understanding modern software delivery practices in the context of data. 

  • Implications of Team Topologies and modern engineering practices when it is applied to the context of data-centric SaaS and Data Mesh.

  • How to begin to apply Team Topologies ideas to data-centric SaaS, to help fast flow and manage team cognitive load.  

Problems that this Spotlight session solves

This Spotlight session addresses challenges that organizations face when trying to enable fast flow in their data-centric SaaS and MLOps. It starts by creating the awareness of the technical practices that enable fast flow. The workshop provides an overview of these practices and how they can be applied in the context of data-centric SaaS and Data Mesh. 

Organizations trying to adopt data as a core tenant in their landscape might feel difficulty in bringing together data engineering, data science, and MLOps teams in an effective manner. The Spotlight session explores how tried-and-tested Team Topologies and DevOps patterns can be applied to address this challenge and enable end-to-end machine learning teams. 

Finally, the session aims to increase awareness of the mindset and skills needed for fast flow in data-centric SaaS, using ideas from Team Topologies, such as team types, effective team boundaries, and ways to limit and manage team cognitive load. By acquiring a shared understanding of these concepts, attendees can feel more confident in applying them to improve flow and performance in their organization.

Schedule: what is covered and when 

Screenshot of part of the Miro board used for this workshop

The workshop takes place over three 2-hour sessions, making it easy to schedule in busy calendars across multiple time zones. These sessions can be run in the same week or spread across two or three weeks.

  • Session 1: Implications of Team Topologies, fast flow, and team cognitive load for data-centric SaaS applications

    • We begin by reviewing the core engineering practices for fast flow: Continuous Delivery, deployment pipelines, operability, and modern version control.

    • We then explore several implications of fast flow and Team Topologies for things like: team ownership, software boundaries, deployment pipelines, architecture, code ownership, coding practices, and - most importantly - managing team cognitive load.

    • We use a worked example of a fictitious SaaS usage metering platform to explore the ideas of fast flow and Team Topologies.

  • Session 2: Start to apply Team Topologies in your specific situation

    • We begin by introducing the Team Topologies team interaction modeling shapes and how these help to facilitate conversations about team evolution.

    • We then use the modeling shapes to design team interactions for the SaaS usage metering tool example from Session 1.

    • We next look at a real scenario from your organization and begin to apply Team Topologies principles (we can help you select a suitable scenario for the workshop beforehand).

    • Optional: attendees are given exercises to complete before Session 3. This exercise explores the ideas from the first two sessions in the context of the attendees’ own organization. 

  • Session 3: Work review plus Q&A

    • We review and discuss any recent work or exercises undertaken by attendees.

    • Questions from the previous two sessions will be explored by the attendees and practitioners.

Prerequisites

Attendees will get the most benefit from the workshop by completing the prerequisite activities. The ‘Essential’ activities will only take around 1-2 hours to complete. The ‘Recommended’ activities may take a few days to complete in total but will enable a deeper, more valuable learning experience. 

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How to buy

Price: 18000 GBP (and applicable taxes)

We have flexible contract and payment terms. Contact our Sales team to begin the purchase process, quoting workshop code “P641j”.

FAQs

  1. Who should attend the Spotlight session?

    • Engineers (both data and software engineers), data scientists, data analysts and managers involved in building and evolving the products and services.

  2. How is the Spotlight session delivered?

    • The Spotlight session is delivered online using video call (Google Meet, Zoom, or MS Teams).

  3. How do I buy this Spotlight session?

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