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Matthew Skelton

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CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Joined April 14, 2022
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Aug 08, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Ranking LLMs by felony: " I care only about style. How oafish was the process that lead to the LLM committing the felony?" https://www.verysane.ai/p/felonybench-style-points
www.verysane.ai

FelonyBench Style Points

There are many benchmarks we use to rank LLMs, but “how many felonies has it committed” has recently become popular.

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jul 06, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Decision-making approach: Hats, Haircuts, Tattoos. 👒 Hats - try them on (low risk) 💇 Haircuts - live with the result a while ⚓ Tattoos - permanent By James Clear via Emily Webber: Decision making at the right level with Hats, Haircuts and Tattoos https://emilywebber.co.uk/decision-making-at-the-right-level-with-hats-haircuts-and-tattoos/
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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I have my copy of The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks. Essential reading for every leader leading the shift to AI-native ways of working.
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jun 14, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @trondhjort@hachyderm.io
@trondhjort@hachyderm.io @kevlin@mastodon.social very much agree about the dangers of temporary "empowerment" . That's why I spend so much time and focus on leadership behaviour reframing etc. like these roundtable sessions: https://confluxhq.com/expert-led-leadership-roundtables
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jun 14, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @trondhjort@hachyderm.io
@trondhjort@hachyderm.io @kevlin@mastodon.social I now use the phrase Economies of Empowerment to characterise the conditions needed for genuine effective execution at speed and scale (yep, it's kinda DP2). Seems to resonate with the right people. https://matthewskelton.com/keynote-talks/keynote-economies-of-empowerment
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jun 04, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @bittner@hachyderm.io @feoh@oldbytes.space agreed. I just add more slides, split out the words, use HUGE fonts. Example: https://speakerdeck.com/matthewskelton/how-to-use-economies-of-empowerment-to-get-the-benefits-of-both-speed-and-scale-agile-yorkshire Slide 2
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @msmamet@mastodon.social
@msmamet@mastodon.social agreed although I hear that the capacity problem is present across all hyperscalers, but it's just more apparent with Azure ... 😵‍💫
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Mmm, petrichor 👃

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io subscribed 💪
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @gadi@infosec.exchange
@gadi@infosec.exchange @thirstybear@agilodon.social seems like we're failing with AI too 😂
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social
Replying to @matthewskelton@mastodon.social
@gadi@infosec.exchange what are you seeing in this space around helper tooling to provide bounded agency for LLM-based tools? 🚧🦾
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social
Replying to @gadi@infosec.exchange
@gadi@infosec.exchange as you know, too much LLM access is literally an OWASP risk: LLM06:2025 Excessive Agency At some point, smarter people will realise that *bounded agency* is a good thing, not unfettered access. https://genai.owasp.org/llmrisk/llm062025-excessive-agency/
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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"the most effective teams don’t choose between hierarchy and flatness but rather shift between them, much like the SEALs. This emerging capability, which my co-authors and I have termed hierarchical adaptability, offers a blueprint for building teams that respond to diverse and shifting demands without the disruption of formal restructuring. "

https://www.forbes.com/sites/londonschoolofeconomics/2026/03/12/the-most-successful-teams-dont-stay-flat-or-hierarchical-for-long/

Article by Nicole Abi-Esber, Lindy Greer, and Annebel de Hoogh

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social

"... Comrade Trump's three-part mobilization: human rights, finance, and national security, all insisting that the enemy gets a vote, and voting unanimously for a post-American world."

Cory Doctorow on Trum ushering in the "Gretacene" (post-oil world).

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure (04 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Dail

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @otfrom@functional.cafe
@otfrom@functional.cafe Microsoft never really changed 🤷
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social

"Microsoft told us that there is no more space in Azure for us to expand our cloud footprint" - senior engineer in a major UK/global financial services group to me today. ☁️⛔

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Combination of AI demand and Microsoft engineering woes (?)

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social
Replying to @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
@simon_brooke @pluralistic TIL: 'the concept of "demand destruction," which is what happens when shortages prompt people to make durable, one-way changes in their behavior that permanently reduce the demand for fossil fuels.'
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social

"A governance form that requires a permanent supply of correct understanding from an expert class is structurally not perdurable. It holds within its engineered parameters and fails outside them."

https://thecynefin.co/beltane-and-the-barricade/

Dave Snowden

#transformation #AI

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social
Replying to @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social
@WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social "The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact." 🤣
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 15, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social
Replying to @Andylongshaw@mastodon.me.uk
@Andylongshaw@mastodon.me.uk I turn all those sighs into new books 📚📚📚 😁
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @Andylongshaw@mastodon.me.uk
@Andylongshaw@mastodon.me.uk I feel your sigh 😁
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social
Replying to @fuzztech@infosec.exchange
@fuzztech@infosec.exchange @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net this is why I now focus on the leadership, management, and practices needed for 'Economies of Empowerment' - it avoids the centralized/decentralized trap and zooms into the conditions needed for bounded autonomy. The framing seems to help. https://matthewskelton.com/keynote-talks/keynote-economies-of-empowerment
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @mattedgar@social.coop
@mattedgar@social.coop matt
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @tom_geraghty@mastodon.online
@tom_geraghty "four groups of people, working on the same ship, without any shared and agreed standard." This is your typical enterprise in miniature 😁🥴 Great write-up, Tom.
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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'I recently watched a $40 million AI initiative collapse. Not because the technology failed—the models worked beautifully in demos. It collapsed because the organization couldn’t answer a basic question: What does "customer" mean?' - hard truths from Kenneth R Stott

Free sample from his book "Simple Is Hard" about organizational intelligence - https://simpleishard.io/#sample

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Apr 01, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

mastodon.social

The biggest April Fool's joke? Using AI to generate more output quicker instead of reshaping the flow of value in teams and systems.

Multi-billion dollar joke...

🤡🤡🤡

#AI #AprilFool

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Mar 21, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
@Ashedryden utterly dystopian 🤮
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Mar 16, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @Haste@mastodon.social
@Haste @heinragas @ATLeagle lolsob 😭
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jan 04, 2026
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @parismarx@mastodon.online
@parismarx@mastodon.online thanks for this! Collabora looks nice as a Google Docs alternative, although we don't have the capacity to run the infrastructure ourselves (even if we have the know-how). https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/ Looks like they partner with some infrastructure providers...
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Sep 14, 2025
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @elizayer@mastodon.social
@elizayer@mastodon.social @c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io there is a case to be made in IT consulting for refusing to work with publicly traded companies (in the UK we call these PLCs) - stock market - due to the myopic quarterly results habit. Find instead customers that have a multi-year view. 🤷
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2025
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @Mastodon@mastodon.social
@Mastodon@mastodon.social superb leadership here going non-profit and transparent. We're planning something similar for @TeamTopologies@mastodon.social ...
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2023
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @AndiMann@masto.ai

@AndiMann@masto.ai An interesting companion to this is organizations using suppliers, especially for consulting and outside help:

  1. Orgs that are happy to use outside help remotely.
  2. Orgs that insist on in-person help only (and are in denial about the shift to remote).

#remote

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Nov 02, 2022
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @matthewskelton@mastodon.social
@malcolm@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social We've become a sponsor via Patreon, btw - through @ConfluxHQ@mastodon.social Awesome work - thank you, @Gargron@mastodon.social
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton@mastodon.social · Nov 02, 2022
Matthew Skelton
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social

CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'

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Replying to @malcolm@mastodon.social
@malcolm@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Yep - much more "nippy", as we say here in the UK!
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