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CEO/CTO at Conflux │ Co-author of Team Topologies │ Fast Flow │ Human & AI Agency │ Empowered Excellence Across Organisations https://matthewskelton.com/

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · Feb 1

📢 I'm now available for keynote talks worldwide

* How to use ‘Economies of Empowerment’ to get the benefits of both speed and scale
* the AI-savvy operating model
* Platform Engineering done well: innovation, efficiency, market advantage

Request a keynote: https://matthewskelton.com/keynotes

Keynotes — Matthew Skelton

with Matthew Skelton, co-author of ‘Team Topologies’ and originator of Adapt Together™

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 15h

Want to help shape the future of teams?

A place for thinkers, doers, and leaders to explore how Team Topologies drives fast flow and humane organisations

🔗 Join the Team Topologies Community →

Team Topologies Community for people who focus on outcomes, value and team-of-teams organizations — Team Topologies - Organizing for fast flow of value

The Team Topologies Community brings together enthusiasts, practitioners, advocates and leaders who are looking to build modern team-of-teams organizations for fast flow and high impact. The community brings together diverse group of practitioners and enthusiasts - Agile coaches, DevOps coaches, Pro

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 1d

Team Topologies 2nd Ed shows a better way:

💡 Align teams around value streams
💡 Reduce cognitive load
💡 Enable fast, safe, sustainable flow

📘 Explore → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 2d

Awesome work, Corey - thank you !

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Corey Leigh Latislaw @colabug.bsky.social · 2d

At #FastFlowConf today and sketchnoting! ✍🏻 @fastflowconf.bsky.social

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Corey Leigh Latislaw @colabug.bsky.social · 2d

A talk about empowerment at scale by @matthewskelton.com at @fastflowconf.bsky.social. #sketchnoting #FastFlowConf

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Xkaly @xkaly.bsky.social · 2d

Such a long explanation to say they're rolling a new sex-bot.

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 2d

Thanks! Slides from my talk today are here: speakerdeck.com/matthewskelt...

K306 - How to use ‘Economies of Empowerment’ to get the benefits of both speed and scale - Matthew Skelton - FastFlowConf London 2025

From a talk at FastFlowConf London 2025 In this talk, Matthew Skelton - co-author of the groundbreaking book Team Topologies and CEO/CTO at Conflux -…

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 2d

Thanks! Slides from my talk today are here: speakerdeck.com/matthewskelt...

K306 - How to use ‘Economies of Empowerment’ to get the benefits of both speed and scale - Matthew Skelton - FastFlowConf London 2025

From a talk at FastFlowConf London 2025 In this talk, Matthew Skelton - co-author of the groundbreaking book Team Topologies and CEO/CTO at Conflux -…

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 2d

TIL: "lagom" 😁👍

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Jessica Andersson @solidtubez.com · 2d

The idea of curated content is very interesting! I've seen the no filter version and the confusion that can create. I've seen gatekeeping information and the frustration that creates. Curated content sounds like a good middle ground! Lagom as we say in Sweden 😄

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Jessica Andersson @solidtubez.com · 2d

Why APIs matter for innovation - enjoying the session by @matthewskelton.com at @fastflowconf.bsky.social #FastFlowConf

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 2d

At last week’s Leeds Digital Festival Roundtable, we explored empowerment-first thinking. When teams and AI are trusted and supported, they can move fast and stay aligned.

More: https://confluxhq.com/all-events/leadership-roundtable-achieve-both-speed-and-scale-through-empowerment-first-thinking

Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 3d

On the podcast, we talked about a common trap: measuring AI by prompts or lines of code ❌. The real test ✅ is whether it helps teams deliver value faster and focus on what matters.

AI done right = a true force multiplier 💡

Organizational design and Team Topologies after AI

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, the authors of Team Topologies, join the Technology Podcast to discuss AI's impact on team and organization design.

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David Knickerbocker @itsgorain.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA is all illusion. They have nothing else, not even strength. They are able to hurt people, but they are extremely weak and brittle.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

Byline Times has been told by various sources that Farage has maintained a close interest in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia…
But Farage’s ignorance of this particular set of pro-Russian influencers around Nathan Gill is even more questionable….

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 5d

Tagging @redmonk.com - super article 👍

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 5d

"One of the most innovative parts of the CRA [EU Cyber Resilience Act] is for the first time, in any piece of legislation in the world, it enshrines a role for an economic actor they call open source software steward." 💡❤️

Superb interview from Rachel Stephens

A RedMonk Conversation: CRA – The First Horizontal Regulation of the Software Industry

In this conversation, Rachel Stephens (Research Director at RedMonk) and Mike Milinkovich (Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation) discuss the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Mike explains the law, …

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 5d

Huge thank you to everyone who came along to the panel discussion on The Realities of Moving to the Product Operating Model, and to Hyperact for organising and facilitating such a great discussion 👉🏻 Dive deeper: https://www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/realities-of-moving-to-the-product-operating-model

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 10d

Absolutely fascinating.

www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Ukraine’s New Strategy for Keeping the Lights On Through a Winter of War

Top-secret sites house rows of batteries designed to support the country’s power grid during bombardments.

www.wsj.com

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 10d

The etymology of "battery" is worth thinking about in this context.

"The extension to 'electrical cell' (1748, in Ben Franklin) is perhaps from the artillery sense via notion of 'discharges' of electricity."

www.etymonline.com/word/battery

Battery - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

Originating from 1530s French batterie and Latin battuere, batter means the action of beating or unlawful assault, reflecting its legal and physical meanings.

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Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 10d

Renewables are more secure during conflict.

1. No dependency on fuel imports which could be shut off or curtailed by an enemy
2. Distributed nature is more robust
3. Batteries help maintain supply if there is a problem
4. Offshore wind farms provide sensor platforms
5. Solar PV is easy to replace

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 10d

Absolutely fascinating.

www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Ukraine’s New Strategy for Keeping the Lights On Through a Winter of War

Top-secret sites house rows of batteries designed to support the country’s power grid during bombardments.

www.wsj.com

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 6d

Huge thank you to everyone who came along to the panel discussion on The Realities of Moving to the Product Operating Model, and to Hyperact for organising and facilitating such a great discussion 👉🏻 Dive deeper here : www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/realities-of-moving-to-the-product-operating-model

Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 6d

Are you ready to start scaling Team Topologies? With a carefully curated set of tools designed to work well with Team Topologies principles, our Success ToolKit can make the leap a little easier to make.

Success ToolKit™ — Team Topologies - Organizing for fast flow of value

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 7d

In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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