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 May 11 / 09:00AM EDT
Due to unforseen circumstances, the presenter will no longer be available for the Q&A. 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...
Nick Tune
Principal Consultant and Author
Observability for Speed & Flow
Wednesday May 11 / 10:10AM EDT
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 May 11 / 11:20AM EDT
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 Fast Flow in Norway's Largest Bureaucracy
Wednesday May 11 / 12:30PM EDT
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
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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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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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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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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