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Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

Strategic Tech

This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. This workshop format is designed around both of these needs and uses two tools in order to find the most effective system design: EventStorming and the Bounded Context Design Canvas. Look for pivotal events?—?look

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There’s a straight line between strong decision-making and good software architecture

O'Reilly Software

Thoughtful and effective decision-making was a key trend at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019. The ability to make good decisions might be the most important aspect of a software architecture practitioner’s job. Every day.every week.every month, you make critical architectural decisions.

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Strategic Domain-Driven Design Kata: Delivericious

Strategic Tech

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. Domain message flow modelling is used for this step.

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Architecture & DDD Kata: Online Car Dealership

Strategic Tech

You can find out more about that here: [link] This kata is based on content from my workshops. This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems. All architecture decisions are ultimately driven by a company’s business model, so I think this is a sensible starting point.

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Outside-in Domain Landscape Discovery

Strategic Tech

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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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In fact, Software Design EventStorming is like a DSL for designing business processes that translate directly into code. Provide Design Training & Coaching Training can accelerate the design learning process for any engineer or architect. Visualisation techniques like EventStorming can also be used to design code.

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DDD Pattern: Library Contexts

Strategic Tech

The architecture of the software could be sliced up into a Leasing context and a Car Pool context. Leasing is responsible for managing the leasing process and keeping a historial record of all leases. If the answer is yes, it should probably not be coupled to your specific business process steps.