Matthew Skelton

Matthew Skelton is co-author of the award-winning and ground-breaking book Team Topologies, and CEO & Principal at Conflux. The Team Topologies book was rated one of the ‘Best product management books of all time’ by Book Authority and is widely used by organizations worldwide to transform the way they deliver value.

Matthew is one of the foremost leaders in modern organizational dynamics for fast flow, drawing on Team Topologies and related practices to support organizations with transformation towards a sustainable fast flow of value and true business agility.

A Chartered Engineer (CEng), Matthew brings together principles and practices from multiple disciplines for a holistic approach to digitally-enriched operating models. He combines his experience as a leader and software architect in multiple contexts (GOV.UK, ecommerce, financial services, telecoms, pharma, retail, robotics, etc.) with a strong interest in the human side of organizations for a compassionate and humanistic approach to organizational effectiveness.

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Books

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Book: Team Guide to Software Operability

By Matthew Skelton, Alex Moore, and Rob Thatcher

July 2019

ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6

Learn how a focus on software operability helps to increase system reliability, reduce problems in Production, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

This guide provides a set of hands-on practices based on real-world, tried-and-tested experience across multiple organizations for teams to adopt (and adapt) in order to promote and enhance software operability.

Book: Better Whiteboard Sketches

How To Sketch Better Technical Diagrams

By Matthew Skelton

February 2019

ISBN 978-1-912058-93-8

This book provides a very practical approach to better whiteboard sketches. Although the techniques are based on sound research and practical usage, the theory is kept to a minimum and you can get started with techniques almost immediately.

Book: Internal Tech Conferences

Internal Tech Conferences: Accelerate Multi-team Learning

By Victoria Morgan-Smith and Matthew Skelton

April 2019

ISBN 978-1-912058-96-9

Internal tech conferences can make a significant impact on an organisation's level of sharing, learning, and communication by accelerating multi-team learning across technology departments. An increasing number of enlightened organisations are using this powerful approach to spread and embed new ideas and practices.

In this book we share practical advice on how to prepare, run, and follow-up on an internal tech conference, together with some case studies from several organisations showing the approaches in common and the adaptations for each situation.

Book: Build Quality In

Build Quality In

Edited by Steve Smith and Matthew Skelton

February 2015

Build Quality In is a book of Continuous Delivery and DevOps experience reports from the wild.