DevOps Topologies 10 years on: what have we learned about silos, collaboration, and flow? - DevOpsDays London 2024
More than 10 years ago - in October 2013 - the influential DevOps Topologies patterns were published by Matthew Skelton. Since then, the DevOps Topologies patterns have been used by thousands of organizations including Netflix, Condé Nast International, adidas, and Accenture to improve their approaches to building and running software services at scale. These patterns were the early inspiration for the groundbreaking and award-winning book Team Topologies - authored in 2019 by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais - which has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide.
Another vital industry resource that began life in 2013 is the State of DevOps Report assessments. These reports are based on insights from thousands of IT professionals around the world and use rigorous statistical approaches to create predictive relationships between practices and outcomes. Out of the State of DevOps Reports came the Accelerate metrics (aka DORA metrics) which have helped many thousands of organizations to focus on key foundational practices for high performance in IT.
However, even after more than 10 years of consistent, clear, actionable advice and recommendations, many organizations are still stuck in a low-performing state. Why is this? What is holding back these organizations from improving their IT delivery performance?
In this talk, Matthew Skelton - founder at Conflux and co-author of the book Team Topologies - explores the key learnings from 10 years of Team Topologies and State of DevOps Reports and outlines key steps that organizations can take to improve IT delivery performance:
Organize for flow
Address team cognitive load
Estimate the cost of “tangled software”
Use the Accelerate metrics and community techniques to find good boundaries for flow
Promote ‘active knowledge diffusion’ across organizational boundaries for alignment and staff engagement
By combining learnings from State of DevOps Reports and Team Topologies together with principles championed by the DevOps community and knowledge diffusion approaches like Adapt Together™️, organizations can navigate a route to business agility via a fast flow operating model.
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From a talk at DevOpsDays London 2024: https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-london/speakers/matthew-skelton/
