Matthew Skelton CEO, Conflux & co-author of "Team Topologies"

Co-author of the award-winning and ground-breaking book Team Topologies, Founder and CEO at Conflux, and director of core operations at the non-profit Team Topologies, Matthew brings a humane approach to organisational effectiveness.

Many organisations struggle to scale nimble ways of working as the organisation or department grows, stifling innovation and delivery effectiveness. What worked at a small scale appears expensive at larger scales, where drive for deduplication and efficiency begins to couple together previously separate initiatives, slowing them down.

The traditional management approach of “Economies of Scale” – taken from manufacturing – does not work well for knowledge work and continuously evolving digital services that are the foundation of many organisations today because digital services are not the mass-production of identical widgets. However, “Economies of Speed” – where time-to-market is the overriding factor – are often not sustainable beyond a funding round, deadline, or acquisition.

Instead of a back and forth ‘flip-flop’ between organising for scale and organising for speed, organisations can get the best of both approaches by organising for empowerment.

Using “Economies of Empowerment” as the organising principle drives clarity of mission, purposeful boundaries that work for flow, continuous adaptation to new technologies, and rapid innovation via cross-team learning & sharing.

In this talk, Matthew Skelton – co-author of the book Team Topologies and CEO/CTO at Conflux – shares insights from helping hundreds of organisations to apply principles and practices from Team Topologies, Adapt Together™, and related approaches in order to scale nimble value delivery via empowered teams and “Economies of Empowerment”.

Explore how to structure teams for fast flow, reduce cognitive load, and unlock real agility. Bring your questions for this unfiltered deep dive — spots are limited!