I write about software , learning, and agility

Public Speaking - Talks, Podcasts and Publications

Sharing what I have learned is important to me - it helps me reflect on what I am actually doing, find my blind spots and explore how my experience connects to other people’s work. Speaking has been daunting in the beginning, but with time, I’ve started to really enjoy it. And the creative process of putting together a well thought-out story is as laborious, as it is fulfilling!

Here is a collection of my appearances on conferences and in podcasts. Further down you can also find a list of all my publications and articles not found on this website.

Knowledge silos are a plague for big organisations. They slow down decision-making, sometimes preventing innovation from happening and inviting inertia. And yet, they are notoriously hard to tackle. In this talk we showcase what we’ve done for over 4 years to ignite a knowledge-sharing revolution with the help of enabling teams.

Enabling Team for Company Learning

Tsvetelina Plummer, Berrin Akvardar

Shift-Left for Learning

With the Help of Enabling Teams

Tsvetelina Plummer, Berrin Akvardar

If you can take a bird's-eye view of your organisation, how often would you see the same problem being solved over and over again? You look around and see that one team did an amazing job at data loading, but that other team over there somehow did a worse job, in double the time. Ouch, how did that happen?

Splitting without Splitting

Eberhard Wolff’s stream from the AmA Conf

Tsvetelina Plummer, Pricilia Gunawan

What's the best way to collaborate with data scientists? Should they be in their own team or can they be embedded within engineering teams? And what if you had 10 of them?

In our years of working with data scientists, we've learned there are ways to do things, beside splitting people, even in contexts where there are A LOT OF people!

Watch me and my colleague Pricilia Gunawan tackle this in a live stream from the Agile meets Architecture conference!

Team Topologies Panel

Moderated by Michael Plöd, together with Evelyn Van Kelle, Simon Rohrer, Kenny Baas Schwegler, Carola Lilienthal

Eberhard Wolff’s stream on the Agile meets Architecture conference brought me together with Simon Wardley, Carola Lilienthal and Markus Harrer to chat about Wardley mapping… and well… Software Architecture

Wardley Maps meets Software Architecture

From EuroPLoP 2024

This is a podcast recorded during the 29th European Pattern Conference EuroPLoP. Eduardo Guerra interviewed me and Filipe Correia on our experience being co-chairs of the 2024 EuroPLoP. We share insights on what this conference is all about and what makes it completely stand out within academia and practitioner conferences alike. Tune in to get excited!

Academic Articles


Patterns for enabling highly autonomous teams

Allan Kelly, Tsvetelina Plummer

EuroPLoP '24: Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices

Link to ACM Digital Library


Community-Driven Learning: Two Case Studies

Tsvetelina Plummer, Victor Sauermann, Berrin Akvardar
EuroPLoP '24: Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices

Link to ACM Digital Library


Community-Driven Learning

Victor Sauermann, Tsvetelina Plummer

EuroPLoP '23: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People and Practices

Link to ACM Digital Library


Micro-Iterations-based Workshops

Tsvetelina Plummer, Victor Sauermann, 
EuroPLoP '22: Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices

Link to ACM Digital Library


Matching in the pi-Calculus

Kirsitin Peter, Tsvetelina Plummer, Uwe Nestmann (2014)

Proceedings Combined 21st International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 11th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics

Link to PDF

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