Re-think and re-fuel your organization’s flow inspired by forward-thinking peers and experts!
The Organizational Flow-event was hosted by Valtech's Business Transformation team together with Contentful and commercetools. During the reflection we tried the hypothesis that every company is now turning into a software company and face ever-changing customer demands. This means that flow in software development impacts every aspect of the business and hence key challenges for leaders ought to be improving team dynamics and delivery flow to help their IT teams meet demands.
To elaborate on that, and to understand our client’s view, we gathered our audience: a selected group of technology leaders and other leaders who are engaged in a digitalization journey to share insights, thoughts, and experiences. Given the energy they brought, from the first beehive exercise, through breakout sessions and dinner conversations, we understood there was a lot more to be said and discussed, so a follow-up is yet to come.
Team Topologies
Valtech, Contentful and commercetools partnered with Matthew Skelton, the award-winning author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow, to discuss the key ideas around organisation dynamics and technology teams for fast flow. Matthew Skelton guided us through the essence of his book and elaborated on the good questions from the audience that gave some new insights you don’t get from reading the book.
Breakout sessions
To catch the audience’s reflections on the session and understand if there were any ideas, problems that we could help them articulate and then help them out with as business opportunities. We are very fond of the Open Space Technology format and tried a version with the predefined topics: Devops at scale, Business agility, From legacy to fast moving tech and Commerce flow
Agenda:
15.30 Welcome
16.00 Team Topologies with Matthew Skelton followed by a Q&A session for participants
17.00 Mingle and network with peers
17.30 Dinner with panel discussion
19.00 Into the night
Panel discussion
The panel discussion was moderated by Dirk Lässig, Director Transformation Consulting, Valtech. Following Matthew Skelton's insights, Dirk Lässig hosted a discussion with Kati Andersson, VP Customer & Commercial Solutions, Scandinavian Airlines, Mathias Strandberg, Head of Digital Strategy at Telia Group, and Mats Hellström, Regional Partner Manager at Contentful. They all shared insights, challenges and ideas based on hands-on experience of driving change in different organizations and adding that extra layer to the conversion on organizational flow.
Speakers
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and techno logy teams for fast flow. Recognised by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com. He is Head of Consulting at Conflux and specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organisation dynamics for modern software systems.
Panel discussion
Dirk Lässig is an agile coach, software engineer and digital consultant at Valtech. He has worked throughout the software lifecycle as a software engineer, software systems architect, team lead, business analyst and enterprise IT architect delivering major software systems. Today, Dirk is leading the transformation consulting practice in Germany working across EMEA.
As VP Customer & Commercial Solutions at Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), Kati Andersson leads a 17-team IT function. She is responsible for customer and commercial solutions, which is an integration between IT, distribution and digital services. Kati and her teams are focused on creating digital services that make life easier for SAS’s customers and bring in revenue for SAS.
With a long background in digital transformation, digital business development and strategy from various digital agencies in Sweden, UK and the US, Mathias Strandberg is Head of digital strategy at Telia Company. His focus is to lead and facilitate how Telia Company transforms to become a truly digital-first telco - Reinventing better connected living, always with the customer in mind.
Mats is responsible for Contentful's partner network in the Nordics and the UK. Previous experiences include leading the digital delivery organisation for agencies, both in the UK and the Nordics, and developing product strategies for global organisations. Mats has been working with Content Management Systems for almost two decades.