Operationalizing Shared Mental Models

Join us to understand how to keep teams aligned as delivery accelerates.

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Join us to understand how to keep teams aligned as delivery accelerates.

In this talk, we will explore how software rarely breaks because of a single bad decision. More often, it breaks after shared understanding has been slowly eroding.

As teams grow and change, keeping a clear sense of why something exists, what has changed, and how it fits together becomes harder. People join, requirements evolve, risks surface - and context is easily lost.

At the same time, artificial intelligence is helping teams ship faster than ever before. Code can now move faster than shared understanding. This talk explores lightweight ways to help team understanding keep pace with accelerating delivery, by capturing intent, decisions, and boundaries as a natural part of the work.

The session includes a short demonstration using simple developer tools to make the ideas concrete. Although the examples come from software teams, the focus is on shared understanding across roles and how these ideas translate to fast-changing, multi-disciplinary teams.

About the speaker
Matias Vizcaino is a Tech Lead at Thoughtworks, interested in how teams stay aligned as systems and organizations change. When people join, priorities shift, and new risks emerge, he focuses on how shared understanding is reflected in the code teams build - and how evolving code, in turn, reshapes that understanding.

🗣️ Language: English (Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be perfect!)

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