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

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

JUNE 18, 2021

This gets tricky at times when collaborating with different companies or communities that use different definitions. Field is most often used to designate a domain of professional specialization. To reduce undesired ambiguity in communication consider using the specific definitions. We can learn a few things from these examples.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

A strict definition of “cloud” must also include software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings of all kinds—including email (Google G Suite email; Microsoft Exchange Online), office productivity suites (Google Docs and Sheets; Microsoft Office 365), and similar offerings. Take observability , for example.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid."

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. It’s more of an attempt to improve collaboration and design culture.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

Indi provides a precise definition of each space including the types of activities that fit within them. Marty’s definitions appear to fit nicely with Indi’s definitions of problem space and product discovery (the first half of her solution space).

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Perhaps led by strong managers, they will fight vehemently for their work to be prioritised and software systems to be designed to their needs. This organisational pattern can be mirrored in the software architecture, emphasising the sociotechnical nature of systems. These concepts also apply to distributed architectures.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Library Context Definition First I’m going to start by defining the library context pattern, and then I’ll show an example architecture which includes a library context. 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 24, 2021

Group Patterns The following list is as a sample of archetypical patterns rather than a definitive list. However, a structured model with clear definitions can help your company to define guidelines that make sense in your context. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies.

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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. Q: What is a domain landscape?

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop. How we prepared the room at NDC Porto just before the workshop started The workshop involves reviewing pre-made canvases and identifying design problems and suggesting improvements. albeit a few annoyances, too.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? Another piece of design feedback is that we can’t replace the generic context with an off-the-shelf solution. Definitely not. How would you architect the solution? Should I Always Use Domain Mapper Contexts?

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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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