Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. In this article I’ve been referring to what Emily Peterson refers to as Development Value Streams. Sometimes it better to be specific about the type of value stream you are referring to.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

In a previous article , I wrote about how models like DALL-E and Imagen disassociate ideas from technique. Designing the prompts to get DALL-E to do something extraordinary requires a new kind of technique that’s very different from understanding pigments and brushes. We don’t really have a good language for describing software design.

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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 high-level structure is not design structure (e.g. Check out my presentations and articles.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This approach has worked well for software development, so it is reasonable to assume that it could address struggles related to deploying machine learning in production too. In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. Software Architecture. Data Science Layers.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. I’m not precious about any of the definition used in this article. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Being aware of the patterns inherent to layered sociotechnical architectures can save you a lot of pain and politics in the long-term. In this article, we will look at coupling which arises due to needs of consumers (services that depend on others or ‘consume’ them) and the teams that build them.

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Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

Kotlin’s official documentation is great and there are many introductory articles to Kotlin language on medium, so I won’t be explaining the basics and syntax but wanted to present some unique features that Java doesn’t have and makes Kotlin stand out. So, I was hearing a lot about Kotlin lately and decided to give it a try.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. As mentioned in our previous article, we recommend a name that reflects the team’s purpose and area of responsibility.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. In this article, I’m going to provide working definitions of those concepts and clear them up. This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This article was co-authored by Eduardo da Silva and Nick Tune based on our individual and collective experiences. FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET).

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Start by mapping out the current state of your domains If you’re not sure what your domains are, I have created a Strategic DDD Kata which provides a scenario for you to practice designing domain boundaries. The future automated process needs to be carefully designed, not just a a copy of the existing manual process.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Later sections of this article look at domain ownership and hybrid patterns. It makes a lot of sense to organise teams around specific user journeys or user personas in order to design the optimal end-to-end experience. Check the Reviews team in the Org Design for Design Orgs example later in this article.

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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? The team can become a bottleneck for many other teams, and this design choice can be the result of elevated organisational politics.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

Hope you find this useful I wrote this article mainly for myself so that I can share it with others when the terms problem and solution space begin causing confusion. You can simply present the mandate levels diagram and ask people to pick out which level they are referring to when they talk about problem space, for example.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. In this article we’ll take a look at what’s possible now, in the near future and the distant future. This means we should think about remote modelling from a fresh perspective.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Don't be trapped by dogma A lot has been said and written about why something worked for Spotify may not apply to your organisation, and the purpose of this article is not to go in those discussions but to highlight practical issues with these models. Design your teams to stay small and iterate fast. You want to move fast.

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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. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

I read an article on the death of Agile. It’s not the first article I’ve seen claiming that Agile is dead, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. This has to do with the concept of bounded context from Domain Driven Design.). Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Domain-Driven Design’s Aggregate pattern is used to bridge the gap. The healthcare example used in this article is based on a discussion I recently had with Kacper Gunia based on the needs of a real client. Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

His articles, his talks, and his sublime visualisations have been referenced thousands of times. Alignment Efficiency is inspired by aerodynamic efficiency. Aligned Autonomy vs Alignment Efficiency Earlier this decade, Henrik Kniberg defined a concept?—? Aligned Autonomy ?—?which which resonated heavily with so many people.

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