ABOUT ORG TOPOLOGIES™

Org Topologies™ is a framework-agnostic visual approach to communicate the direction of organizational development for digital product development and beyond. Come and learn with us.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Language: You will learn to use the visual language of Org Topologies™.

Goal: This toolset will help you assess, design, and sustain the direction of your organization's development.

Practical: Case studies, experience reports, and exercises help you master these org design mapping techniques.

Adaptivity: This course will help you to leverage your organization's adaptivity.

COURSE DETAILS

This course will help your organization to stay relevant for its customers in the long run. Alexey Krivitsky and Roland Flemm, creators of Org Topologies™, will show you how to apply Org Topoplogies™ maps to assess and improve the design of your development organization. The material contains exercises and guidance on how Org Topologies™ can be applied to drive real change.

Format: Self-paced online

Instructors: Alexey Krivitsky & Roland Flemm

Course length: 25 video lessons and exercise videos

Total runtime: ~3 hrs

Approximate time to invest: ~1 week of daily self-paced education

Recommended reading: Org Topologies™ Primer

COURSE PLAN

Chapter 1: Focus on Agile Ecosystem Design

Lessons:

1. Introduction

2. Frameworks and the power or Org Topologies™

3. The two Agile waves

4. The Axes on the map

5. The startup

6. The Scale-up

7. Systemic change 

8. The Y-level archetypes

9. Summary and Questions

Chapter 2: Assessing and Designing Agile Ecosystems

Lessons:

1. Identifying teams on the map

2. Mapping techniques

3. Studying Ecosystems

4. Improving Ecosystems

5. Mapping SAFe

6. Mapping Team Topologies

7. Mapping more frameworks

8. Six enablers of business agility

9. Three steps to drive your change

10. Summary and Questions

Chapter 3: Dependencies & Productization

Lessons:

1. Ecosystem dynamics

2. Three types of dependencies

3. Dealing with reciprocal dependencies

4. Dealing with sequential dependencies

5. Dealing with pooled dependencies

6. Horizontal Scaling techniques

7. Vertical Scaling techniques

8. What is Productization

9. Practices of higher archetypes

10. Higher archetypes and hybrid work

11. Case studies

12. Summary and Questions

Chapter 4: Dealing with Stickiness and Transformations

Lessons:

1. What is stickiness in org design

2. Paradigm shifts

3. Mapping examples

4. More case studies

5. Mapping special archetypes

6. Scrum Mastery & Product Ownership 

7. Designing transformation options

8. Applying Org topologies

9. Further learning

10. Summary and Questions

11. Closing

PARTICIPATION OPTIONS

1. Video Course

• access all videos 

• practice on your own

• share a Slack channel with other students doing this course

2. Video Course + Q&A call with the authors and community

• access all videos

• practice on your own

• share a Slack channel with other students doing this course

• join a Q&A call with the authors of Org Topologies™ plus the active community members to answer your questions in Zoom