Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Looking Ahead… Momentum is clearly building around the concept of value streams and the discipline of Value Stream Architecture.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Presence of a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within respondents’ organizations.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It’s extremely frustrating as an engineer to work on something which is cancelled and to switch focus to something else. 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.

Strategy 97

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. A clear warning sign.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Coca-Cola engineered a replacement product that consumers rated superior to both the classic Coke product and Pepsi. They engineered a superior product. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today. As the 1990s business strategy sage M. However, OS/2 simply never caught on.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Engineering for Speed and Reliability It shouldn’t be treated as a law that teams will clash when there is a dependency between their products, even if there is a big difference in mindset. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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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?” I find that the more details added when fleshing out the domain (e.g. This is quite a big topic.

Software Architecture 52

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. So remember to always keep the chocolate sauce heuristic in mind: Classification is multi-dimensional.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Product Mode by Sriram Narayan Innovation Portfolio An innovation portfolio is invaluable because it expresses where products and platforms are in their lifecycle, revealing where each fits into the strategy. The Size column indicates the approximate number of engineers working in the team or group.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. The shared service will ultimately remove an extremely high level of duplication and allow hundreds of engineers to spend more time on activities with a higher value.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 28, 2022

Avoid Big Reorgs When changing fundamental aspects of engineering and product culture, it takes time and iteration to establish them in the unique environment of every organization. Start Small, Nail It, Then Scale It?—?Avoid Do you have any experience of overcoming the structure and process fallacy?

Processing 52

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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.

Healthcare 10

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

engine mode) Ideally, each context would be an Open Host. Gateway Interchange Contexts was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. The GIC is also risky in that business rules could start to creep in.

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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? Being able to analyse your domain to understand core, supporting, and generic capabilities enables you to make sound engineering trade-offs. What are the engineering consequences we need to be aware of? generic).

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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. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy. People in the team can’t keep up .

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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. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” He had a strategy.

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