Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it? One thing I want you to notice is that good architecture is about more than just defining good boundaries. In DDD a bounded context is an independent, loosely-coupled architectural component.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. Design review is basically a code review but for architecture.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? The same concepts can belong to different domains When modelling systems we have to choose the most appropriate domain boundaries with which to align our software and organisational boundaries.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Layers start to emerge and as a result, shipping new customer-facing features require changes that cut through multiple layers of the architecture. Being aware of the patterns inherent to layered sociotechnical architectures can save you a lot of pain and politics in the long-term. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?—?teams

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Another hurdle to decision making is when technology leaders feel that the skills needed to deliver big changes don’t exist within the organization like the lack of DDD, architecture, or cloud skills.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

If we align our software architecture and teams with these enduring business capabilities, theoretically we’ll have stable, long-term boundaries within which to create sustainable software and minimal dependencies between the teams that run them. frontend, backend, DBAs).

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The Symphonia

MARCH 13, 2018

And of course, if you’re interested in getting some help in April or May for architecture review, DevSecCostOps (™) , or building a Lambda-backed proof-of-concept, then drop us a line. If you’re looking for training we have several tutorials and workshops on the calendar. See our complete speaking schedule here.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas. We can use these to capture outcomes from the workshop aka follow-up actions. In my in-person workshops, I’ve faced this hard limitation.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

In every workshop, I always ask everyone “Imagine there is no text here. What do you read from the image below, and what might you propose to do next in the workshop? You can do this with almost any visual workshop technique. What is this arrangement of colours and shapes telling you?”.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020. Hope to see you there.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rethinking Domain, Software, and Team Boundaries As organizations grow, the structures and practices that helped them to be effective at one scale hinder them at another scale. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. With loosely-coupled architectures we can invest more granularly where payback is greatest. Diligently-crafted boundaries give us strategic-flexibility.

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