Susanne Kaiser: Team Topology Clinic: Designing for Change from Both Directions

You've likely read Team Topologies. You understand stream-aligned teams, enabling teams, platform teams. But when change hits your organization—whether it's a business pivot, legacy code constraints, or strategic shifts—does your team structure actually help or get in the way?

Most product leaders design team structures from one direction: either top-down (strategy to teams) or bottom-up (technical constraints to teams). What's often missing is seeing both forces simultaneously—how business change and technical reality collide, and where your team boundaries either enable fast flow or create hidden bottlenecks.

Susanne Kaiser brings a rare dual perspective: 20+ years as a software engineer and former CTO, combined with deep expertise in business strategy and organizational design. Her approach integrates Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies to diagnose where your team structure is fighting the actual forces of change in your organization—detailed in her book ""Architecture for Flow"" (Addison-Wesley, 2025).

This clinic is small-group diagnosis of real situations. Bring a specific challenge: an org structure that feels misaligned, a business change that's blocked by team boundaries, legacy constraints creating dependencies you can't untangle. You'll leave with sharper diagnosis of where your structure is working against change, concrete patterns for redesigning around actual flow, and a more grounded understanding of how to align team topology with both your strategic direction and technical reality.

From seeing team structure as static organization chart to designing it as an adaptive system for change.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suksr/