DESIGN FOR FLOW

Upgrade how your team communicates, collaborates, and delivers

Your journey to dependable delivery

Are you responsible for delivery management and tired of software releases dragging on forever? Sick of your team burning out just to hit deadlines?​

Or perhaps you are moving into delivery management and want to set things up right from the start.

Design for Flow equips you with the mindset, skillset, and toolset to help your team deliver consistently on time, without micromanaging or frazzling your co‑workers.

Design for Flow: a practical path to predictable, sustainable delivery

You’ll learn to:

  • Design a delivery process that fits your context, and set it up for success.

  • Plan and sequence work at multiple levels, from vision to daily flow.

  • Communicate clearly with stakeholders and manage expectations.

  • Manage and mitigate risks using simple, visual tools.

  • Analyse and continually improve your process without adding bureaucracy.​

Whether your team has a dedicated delivery manager or shares the responsibilities across roles (tech lead, product manager, engineering manager), these practices are designed to be co‑created with the whole team.

How Design for Flow can help

Design for Flow works with your team to redesign how work actually moves

by creating clarity, alignment, and realistic planning.

You’ll use insights from your own system to reduce stress, improve flow,

and build delivery practices that people can sustain.

Design for Flow is for you if you want to:

  • Set up a healthy delivery process for a new or growing team

  • Improve an existing process that technically works but drains energy

  • Reduce urgency and overload without slowing outcomes

  • Build a learning culture where improvement is part of daily work

Is Design for Flow for you?

This is a good fit if:

  • You lead or support software teams and want less chaos and more clarity.

  • You feel the cost of poor planning and unclear priorities in stress, frustration, and rework.

  • You sense your teams could do their best work if the system around them were better designed.

Share a bit about your context (company size, number of teams, biggest delivery or team‑health challenge), and I’ll recommend the best way to start and outline what the first 4–6 weeks of working together could look like.

You’ll get the most out of Design for Flow, if you:

  • Support your team’s delivery (e.g. tech lead, product manager)

  • Are stepping into a delivery management role

  • Work in a team without a dedicated delivery lead

  • Want to improve how your organisation delivers outcomes

Design for Flow will teach you the tools, strategies and mindsets to create the systems that:

  • Deliver on goals without burnout

  • Build trust and alignment in your team

  • Turn strategy into everyday action

  • Confidently adapt to change without derailing delivery

  • Know exactly what to prioritise (and what to drop)

  • Reduce unnecessary friction in planning and execution

  • Create predictable, sustainable delivery cycles

Ways to work with Design for Flow

Choose the level of support that fits where you and your organisation are right now.

Cohort‑based online course

For delivery managers, EMs, PMs and team leads who want a structured journey to understand the key factors in enabling software delivery flow and how to implement them in their team.

  • Duration: 4 weeks

  • Weekly rhythm: ~2 hours of self study with material + 1 hour live group call

  • Theory, practical exercises and templates

  • Weekly group consolidation calls to strengthen your learning, share your insights and dive deeper

Mentorship 1:1

For those new to delivery and for experienced leaders who want a trusted partner to help them design for flow in their specific environment.

  • typically 2 × 60 min/month

  • Together we map your current flow

  • We select the most relevant modules

  • We co‑design small, safe‑to‑try experiments in your team

  • Light async support between sessions

Consulting

For leaders, teams and organisations that want hands‑on partnership to redesign how delivery flows end‑to‑end.

This option is for you if you want fewer surprises, calmer teams, and a way of working that can scale with your ambitions.

A typical engagement includes:

  • Discovery and diagnosis

  • Co‑design and experimentation

  • Embedding and handover

Focused workshops

For teams or leadership groups who want to go deep on one aspect of flow.

Examples:

  • Designing a sustainable weekly and quarterly rhythm

  • Reducing overload: from scattered work to clear commitments

  • Flow‑aligned planning and prioritisation

  • Metrics and signals for team health and delivery flow

  • Creating agreements that protect focus time and deep work

Organisational partnerships

For organisations who want to invest in longer-term work on how delivery is designed and evolves over time.

Anything else

If you are interested in a private cohort or any of the other ways of working together, book a call or get in touch directly via email.

hello@thetravellingcoach.com

Next Cohorts

The public cohort is open to all individuals who want to explore Design for Flow as a learning experience.

Cohort 1: 3 March 2026 - 31 March 2026

Cohort 2: 7 April 2026 - 5 May 2026

About Jo

Supporting teams and organisations to work more effectively without sacrificing well-being by cultivating the mindsets, habits, and systems that enable meaningful work.

My approach blends coaching, systems thinking, and practical tools to foster outcome-focused, human ways of working rooted in clarity, sustainability, and alignment. I support team enablement through coaching, training, and consulting.

In the past I have covered delivery management, quality management, analysis as well as management and execution of projects, teams, programmes, and products.

I have lead delivery management in a wide variety of different contexts (enterprise, scale-up, non-profit) and lots of different setups. I have applied these practices hands-on and also consulted others on how to implement them.

Organisational and Individual Work

Design for Flow is the organisational expression of the same principles

that guide my work through The Travelling Coach.

At the individual level, this means:

  • designing habits for imperfect days

  • working with identity, not just behaviour

  • building systems that hold under real conditions

At the organisational level, the same logic applies:

  • systems shape behaviour

  • design beats force

  • responsibility includes the environments we create

This is one body of work, applied at different scales.

If Design for Flow speaks to you, you might be interested in the individual offerings. You can always Start Here

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46024 Valencia