ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
WORKSHOP
Align your teams around value streams to reduce dependencies and accelerate delivery
PROBLEM
Most organizations grow their team structures without considering how these arrangements affect the flow of value. Over time, dependencies multiply, bottlenecks emerge, and delivery slows to a crawl. The problem is rarely individual team performance. It is the invisible friction created by how teams are organized and how they interact.
Every feature requires five teams to coordinate
Engineers spend more time in meetings than creating value
Your platform team is a bottleneck that everyone depends on
SOLUTION
Teams that can independently develop, test, and deploy value—without waiting on approvals, handoffs, or coordination overhead—move faster and learn faster.
Understand how your current structure shapes and constrains what you can build
Align team boundaries with your architecture and value streams
Design a future-state topology that reduces dependencies and enables independent delivery
OUR WORKSHOP
This workshop brings leaders together to gain a deep understanding of their current organizational structure—teams, roles, dependencies, products, platforms, and value streams—and design a more effective future state. Drawing on proven patterns for team design, including concepts from Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, participants map their existing organization, identify key bottlenecks, and create an optimized structure that improves flow and reduces coordination overhead.
Throughout the workshop, we work directly with your organization's real structure, not hypothetical scenarios. You will leave with a mapped current state, a designed future state captured in a collaborative workspace, and a high-level implementation roadmap for transitioning to the new structure. The result is not just new knowledge but a working plan ready for action.
Learning Objectives
Map your current organizational structure, including teams, roles, dependencies, and value streams
Apply team design patterns—including the four fundamental team types and three interaction modes—to your organization
Identify organizational bottlenecks and inefficiencies that constrain flow and delivery
Design an optimized team topology aligned with your products, platforms, and value streams
Evaluate necessary changes to to support the new structure
Develop a high-level roadmap for transitioning from your current state to your future-state design
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The workshop is 10-12 hours, including prep/customization, the workshop sessions themselves, and follow-up.
The workshop can be delivered:
Remotely: 3 sessions over 2-3 weeks
In-person: 2 days
Each cohort accommodates up to 20 people
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This workshop is designed for senior leaders responsible for organizational design and team performance, including CIOs, CPOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, VPs of Product, and HR executives.
It is also valuable for change management professionals and others involved in transformation.
We recommend including leaders who have visibility across multiple teams and value streams.
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Participants leave with a complete set of working artifacts ready for immediate use:
A mapped current state showing your teams, roles, dependencies, and value streams captured in a Miro board or equivalent collaborative workspace.
A designed future-state team topology optimized for flow and reduced dependencies.
A high-level implementation roadmap for transitioning from your current structure to your target state.
A collaborative workspace containing workshop slides, team design patterns, and exercises for continued reference.
A recommended reading list to deepen understanding of organizational design principles.
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Traditional organizational design often focuses on reporting structures and headcount without considering how those structures affect the flow of work.
This workshop takes a sociotechnical approach, recognizing that team structure and technical architecture are deeply connected.
We focus on designing for flow—reducing dependencies, clarifying team boundaries, and enabling teams to deliver value independently.