Modern organizations operate in fast-moving environments with increasing demands, technological innovations, and market competition. Furthermore, they operate on more unpredictable and complex problems, so they can't use the old thinking models of experts planning and architecting up-front solutions. Instead, they must develop suitable organizational structures and architectures that can evolve sustainably to respond to those demands and challenges.
In this talk, I will explore the need for organizations to invest in structures, dynamics, and incentives to increase learning, design, and decision-making by people closest to problems and most equipped to respond to those challenges. I will also share several examples of this journey and how it changes over time.
I will show how Team Topologies can provide a foundational language for discussing the necessary organizational evolution and how Architecture Topologies can be leveraged to understand and improve how we approach learning, design, and decision-making in the different scopes of the organization.
Eduardo da Silva is an independent consultant in sustainable evolution of sociotechnical systems, architecture, and leadership. He also is a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner (TTVP). His work focuses on helping tech-enabled organizations develop strategies, structures, and operating models to achieve and scale a sustainable fast flow of change. He takes a sociotechnical systems’ framing, conside...