Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This high rate of growth, coupled with the current scale and diversity of offerings presents a huge challenge when setting out to improve performance. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. In order to accomplish this, we took a two-pronged approach.

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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. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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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. Maybe I can’t describe how I feel, but it’s just so different to a flat list of slides that all the popular presentation tools use. albeit a few annoyances, too. Miro for In-person Workshops?

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. performance, security) UX / Brand Perception: design decisions which have an impact on how users experience the system I’ve recently been collating some of the variables which exist in each of these areas, and they are presented in the remainder of this article.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

Each group of four people will need at-least four metres of wall space I’ve presented the techniques loosely in order that you might want to follow them. Closing Presentation To close out the workshop each group should present a selection of the context maps they created and discuss the trade-offs of each 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 best place to start will depend on the goals of the workshops, who is present, and other factors.

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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

MARCH 16, 2021

There are many opportunities to spread design ideas and success stories including internal blogs, slack channels focused around design, and presentations at company-wide engineering meetings. Leverage Influencers & Multipliers Good ideas spread faster when they are being promoted by people who are well respected and connected.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? If you’re not sure where to start, talk to product leaders directly or review company townhall presentation. Having a quantifiable number.

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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. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In fact, it’s a combination of three patterns which were first presented in Enterprise Integration Patterns over a decade ago. 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.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

But it comes with the overheads of having to find a time where everybody can be present and not working. Transitioning Toward Greater Alignment Efficiency For each of the scenarios and patterns presented, the longer-term view is a transition to highly-autonomous teams with greatly-improved alignment efficiency.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

Each of the patterns presented in the post are valid and used successfully in a variety of systems. Ensuring that events which require a notification are part of a published language means greater care should be taken to ensure backwards compatibility and notifying consumers of future changes. Should I Always Use Domain Mapper Contexts?

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