Manuel Pais & Paulo Caroli: Combining Team Topologies, Team OKRs & Lean Inception
Online Masterclass · 3-hour immersive experience
Overview
Learn how team design, strategic focus, and product discovery work together to create fast, adaptive, and outcome-driven organizations.
In this 3-hour masterclass, Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies, and Paulo Caroli, creator of Lean Inception and author of Team OKR, will guide you through a practical and integrated approach to:
- Designing teams that enable fast flow
- Defining clear, meaningful objectives at team level
- Turning strategic intent into concrete product decisions
These are not three separate topics. It’s one continuous flow — from structure, to focus, to delivery.
Why combine Team Topologies, Team OKRs, and Lean Inception?
Many organizations struggle not because they lack frameworks — but because they apply them in isolation.
They redesign team structures but ignore team boundaries and mission, leading to unsustainable expectations and lack of team autonomy. They introduce OKRs, but struggle to connect them to everyday team decisions.They improve discovery and delivery, but teams still lack a shared understanding of what to build — and why.
The result is familiar: local optimizations, fragmented initiatives, and teams moving fast — but not always in the same direction.
This masterclass shows how these three approaches reinforce each other:
Team Topologies helps you design teams to reduce cognitive load and enable fast, safe flow of value to your customers
Team OKRs create clarity and alignment around what truly matters for the team, in direct connection with strategic OKRs.
Lean Inception turns that outcome into aligned hypotheses, decisions, and an MVP
Together, they create a system where teams are well-designed, well-aligned, and focused on delivering real value.
In this masterclass, Manuel and Paulo will walk you through an end-to-end example of how to apply the three frameworks together. While fictional, the example encompasses a lot of the customer experiences and challenges that Manuel and Paulo have worked with.
New to Team Topologies?
Team Topologies provides a LEGO-like practical model for designing and evolving team structures that support fast flow and adaptability in a sustainable way.
With Manuel Pais, you’ll learn:
Why a safe, rapid flow of value to customers requires not only cross-functional teams but also clarity of business intent and alignment
How to address problems of excessive cognitive load and insufficient capabilities which slow down your product operating model
When and how to introduce, grow, and scale new capabilities in the organization (such as AI-assisted product development) via platform and enabling patterns
How to avoid common organizational anti-patterns
New to Team OKRs?
Team OKRs shift OKRs from a top-down reporting mechanism to a team-level alignment and execution tool.
With Paulo Caroli, you’ll learn how to:
Translate strategy into clear team-level focus and execution
Define Team OKRs collaboratively, not through top-down delegation
Use strategic OKR and tactical Team OKRs intentionally — and know when each applies
Bring Team OKRs into the planning, delivery, and retrospectives
New to Lean Inception?
Lean Inception is a structured, collaborative way to move from strategy to product decisions.
Also with Paulo Caroli, you’ll learn:
How to connect Team OKRs to hypotheses and experiments
The Lean Inception workflow
How to define an MVP aligned to outcomes
How Lean Inception fits into the Triple Track (Strategy, Discovery, Delivery)
Here’s what will happen
Using real examples, storytelling, and guided discussion, Manuel and Paulo will walk you through:
How team design impacts strategic execution
How Team OKRs create focus without killing autonomy
How OKRs inform product discovery and MVP decisions
How Lean Inception operationalizes strategy
How all three frameworks form a single, coherent system
What you’ll get
3 hours of high-density learning and practical insight
Real-world examples from large-scale organizations
Access to the session recording
Space for questions, discussion, and reflections
Certificate of Participation
Bonus for Participants
On the day of the masterclass, you’ll receive exclusive discount vouchers for:
The combined value of these vouchers is higher than the price of the masterclass itself. They are available exclusively to participants of this session.
Who should attend?
Product & Engineering Leaders
Heads of Agility, Transformation, or Platforms
Product Managers, Tech Leads, and Architects
Teams moving from project-thinking to product-thinking
Organizations seeking clarity, alignment, and flow
Your Instructors
Manuel Pais, co-author of the industry changing book Team Topologies, is on a mission to both make work more humane and businesses more valuable to customers. Manuel delivers motivational keynotes and practical masterclasses on the principles and practices for fast flow that resonate across the organization, from C-level executives to the teams on the ground. He has also helped several Fortune 500 companies pave the path for accelerated value delivery via strategic & organizational assessments.
On the product side, Manuel has led the creation and evolution of the Team Topologies Academy providing online, worldwide access to the latest insights around fast flow, and Teamperature, the industry leading model for assessing and managing team cognitive load.
Paulo Caroli is the creator of Lean Inception and author of Lean Inception, Team OKR in Action, and Product Backlog Building. With decades of experience supporting product and leadership teams, he helps organizations turn strategic intent into clear team focus and concrete product decisions. Paulo is known for his practical, collaborative approach to aligning strategy, discovery, and delivery.