Track Overview
Optimising for Speed & Flow
The patterns and heuristics that enable fast flow and rapid evolution of modern software systems can seem strange and baffling to people familiar with slower, project-based delivery. Fast flow embraces decoupling, autonomy, asynchrony, and eventual consistency for both technology and for organisation design, together with a humanistic, team-first approach.
This track will explore decision-making and sense-making techniques, inter-team dynamics, employee-empowering social practises, and tool-enabled technical practises that help to optimise software architecture and organisational architecture for speed and flow.
Matthew Skelton
Founder and Head of Consulting @ConfluxHQFrom this track
Sustaining Fast Flow with Socio-Technical Thinking
Wednesday Apr 6 / 10:35AM BST
It's easy to achieve fast flow at the start of a new project, especially with a fresh new codebase. But why does flow always seem to get slower and slower over time? Business stakeholders are asking for two new text boxes to be added to a web page, and they are gobsmacked when the developers...
Nick Tune
Principal Consultant and Author
Optimising for Fast Flow in Norway's Largest Bureaucracy
Wednesday Apr 6 / 11:50AM BST
One of the key success factors for fast flow in modern software services is alignment: alignment between mission objectives and domain terminology, alignment between domain terminology and engineering teams, alignment between engineering teams and software architecture, and so on. NAV...
Audun Fauchald Strand
Principal Engineer @NAV
Truls Jørgensen
Principal Engineer @NAV
Observability for Speed & Flow
Wednesday Apr 6 / 01:40PM BST
When we want to go fast, it helps to see what we are doing.When we design team and departmental processes, we want to know what’s happening in the software teams. We want to see danger points and obstacles we could smooth. It’s tempting to ask people to fill more fields in JIRA, but...
Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
Architecture for Flow with Wardley Mapping, DDD, and Team Topologies
Wednesday Apr 6 / 02:55PM BST
In a world of rapid changes and increasing uncertainties, organisations have to continuously adapt and evolve to remain competitive and excel in the market. In such a dynamic business landscape organisations need to design for adaptability.Combining different perspectives and techniques from...
Susanne Kaiser
Independent Tech Consultant
Optimising for Speed & Flow Panel
Wednesday Apr 6 / 04:10PM BST
How do we join the dots between optimising for fast flow and a good engineering culture? How does a good engineering culture help organisations to sense and adapt? What technical and social practices does a good engineering culture need? What do we even mean by ‘a good engineering...
Emily Webber
Agile Coach, Consultant, Trainer, Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice
Victoria Morgan-Smith
Director of Delivery for Engineering Enablement @FinancialTimes
Richard James
Ways of Working Enablement Leader @Nationwide Building Society
Nick Tune
Principal Consultant and Author
Speakers from this track
Nick Tune
Principal Consultant and Author
Nick works with technology leaders to map out business and technology landscapes, architect systems for competitive advantage, and build high-performing continuous delivery teams. Domain-Driven Design and Team Topologies are the core tools in his enterprise design toolkit. Nick is the author of...
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Audun Fauchald Strand
Principal Engineer @NAV
Audun is principal engineer at NAV. Still trying to find the right balance between leading and coding. Aims for code that is simple and organisations that are sustainable. Mostly platforms. Been a developer for more than 15 years, and codes in Go and Kotlin. Mostly...
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Truls Jørgensen
Principal Engineer @NAV
Truls is a principal engineer in NAV, trying to split his time evenly on writing software and on building an organization that creates sustainable services that are adaptable to change over time. Been a developer for over 15 years. Co-creator of the technical direction for our...
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Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) is a Principal Developer Evangelist at Honeycomb.io. After twenty years as a developer, she sees software as a significant force in the world. As software engineers, we change reality--including our own, and that's developer experience! Jess lives in St. Louis,...
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Susanne Kaiser
Independent Tech Consultant
Susanne Kaiser is an independent tech consultant from Hamburg, Germany, supporting organizations with building socio-technical systems. She is passionate about connecting the dots between Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies as a holistic approach to design and build...
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Emily Webber
Agile Coach, Consultant, Trainer, Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice
Emily is an experienced consultant, specialising in agile, delivery and organisations that support people to do their best work. She has helped organisations in public and private sectors create sustainable change through hands-on, effective coaching, consulting and training.Before starting Tacit...
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Victoria Morgan-Smith
Director of Delivery for Engineering Enablement @FinancialTimes
Victoria Morgan-Smith is Director of Delivery for Engineering Enablement at the Financial Times, where she has been helping teams succeed since 2009. Before this she was a developer for 9 years, a background which fuels her interest in finding fun ways to coach, energise and motivate teams into...
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Richard James
Ways of Working Enablement Leader @Nationwide Building Society
I've had the good fortune to have led transformational change within both consulting and industry, with a focus on creating sustainable changes in organisations I've worked with. My passion is for vision-setting and story-telling, building and nurturing empowered teams, fostering...
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Track Host
Matthew Skelton
Founder and Head of Consulting @ConfluxHQ
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Head of Consulting at Conflux (confluxdigital.net), he specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online...
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