Team Topologies, Cognitive Load & Complex Systems | Matthew Skelton In The Engineering Room Ep. 12
305The "Engineering Room" is a monthly series of conversations with people who are influential in the software industry. In this episode Dave Farley, author of "Continuous Delivery", "Modern Software Engineering" and others, talks to Matthew Skelton co-author of one of the most significant software books of the last 10 years - “Team Topologies”, about the ingredients for long-term, viable, sustainable and understandable software development.
Matthew Skelton is co-author of "Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow". He is Head of Consulting at Conflux and specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organisation dynamics for modern software systems.
In this conversation with Dave, he talks about the ecosystem necessary to build and nurture software, and the wide range of topics that impact on the effectiveness, and performance of development teams. The approach that his book "Team Topologies" describes is to use team structure as a tool, guided by the idea of managing the cognitive load of the team. This talk ranges from how to deal with the complex adaptive system that we inhabit when undertaking software development, to the structure of software development being more like an ant colony than an organised, predictable hierarchy.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome and Introduction to Matthew Skelton
01:25 Helping CEOs and CTOs rethink the building and running of software-enriched services
04:20 The wider ecosystem of writing code
06:40 The relationships between different practices, processes and systems
09:38 Shu Ha Ri - understanding what we are doing and why
10:32 The serious responsibility for all-pervasive sw which affects everything we do - even life and death
15:46 Organising around Team Cognitive Load
19:38 General applicability of Information System concepts
21:25 Two mindsets of Software Engineering
24:38 Creative problem-solving v the production line
26:25 Evolution - exploration in small steps, guided towards our intent, adapting to the tech' environment
32:20 Embracing Change
35:32 Paradigm shift: established approaches and patterns no longer fit
43:20 Helping businesses understand, adapt and adopt new ways of working to survive
48:30 The fans, the haters and the 'hard of understanding'
50:00 Control and decision-making in distributed organisations - the ant colony
1:00:20 Team autonomy and fast flow
1:03:52 Remote working and interactions between decoupled teams
1:09:09 Constraints that help improve design and free up creativity
1:14:00 Thanks to Matthew and wrap up