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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? The same concepts can belong to different domains When modelling systems we have to choose the most appropriate domain boundaries with which to align our software and organisational boundaries.

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JULY 20, 2021

In every workshop, I always ask everyone “Imagine there is no text here. What do you read from the image below, and what might you propose to do next in the workshop? You can do this with almost any visual workshop technique. What is this arrangement of colours and shapes telling you?”.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Run Regular Design Katas and Internal Workshops Design katas are an excellent way to build up an appreciation for design, both at the code and architectural level. Katas and workshops are useful techniques for early adopters/influencers and enabling teams to employ.

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APRIL 27, 2020

We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas. We can use these to capture outcomes from the workshop aka follow-up actions. In my in-person workshops, I’ve faced this hard limitation.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If you like the content in this article, and want to learn more about using Domain-Driven Design to create a loosely-coupled architecture and organisational structure, keep an eye out for my upcoming public workshops , or contact me for private consulting and training opportunities.

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APRIL 27, 2019

This organisational pattern can be mirrored in the software architecture, emphasising the sociotechnical nature of systems. While it is nice to go out of your way to please others, the resulting compromises to the software architecture can lead to dangerous sociotechnical side-effects.

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the brief past, the bewildering present, and the beautiful future” here , with resources here ), and John was with our friends from O’Reilly at the latest NYC Software Architecture Conference giving a talk on “Mostly Serverless” and a tutorial covering “Continuous Delivery in an Ephemeral World”. I hope to see some of you there.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

You can also experiment with various workshop formats. However, we recommend filling some parts of the canvas as early as possible to surface any major issues that need urgent attention, certainly before the team’s work ramps up. For example, the first people forming the AMET come together and start defining the mission and targets.

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JULY 18, 2018

If we align our software architecture and teams with these enduring business capabilities, theoretically we’ll have stable, long-term boundaries within which to create sustainable software and minimal dependencies between the teams that run them.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Techniques like big picture event storming are great for mapping out the business and visualising problems and opportunities, but that’s where progress can easily get stuck. How do you go from event storm to product and organizational improvements?

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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.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

The value is in talking through the template, discussing each part, and identifying unknowns, conflicts, or other interesting factors that may benefit from additional discussions or potentially workshops. Feel free to leave a comment or message me directly if you’re interested in this topic and want to discuss anything.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I suggest regular domain discovery workshops to identify hidden domain coupling. At first they might build all the features that don’t require them to talk to other teams, hiding the problem. A bit further down the road, dependencies start to appear and changes often require both codebases to change at the same time.

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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. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble report this finding in their recently-published book Accelerate , drawing on their extensive empirical research. “If

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