Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

If I can capture key information earlier, that gives me a good understanding of key elements of the business’s architecture, we can get to valuable conversations sooner. I’m looking at this challenge from multiple angles, and one of them is figuring out the key information I need. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al.

Architecture 52

Architecture Innovation Strategy Website 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. In this workshop, investigate the relationship between air quality and weather using Amazon SageMaker Studio.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

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.

Design 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2022

We stepped in and offered to run a series of workshops. Initially, one workshop for the leadership team to capture the North Star, and one workshop for the engineering teams and partners to surface their needs to the leadership team. Dan helped me to see that I had designed the workshop as a consultant. I was surprised.

Strategy 52

Strategy Design Engineering Architecture 52

Strategic Tech

MARCH 27, 2022

More of the meetings and workshops I attend are more productive and collaborative and it seems that people are now more warmed up to the idea of participating in visual collaboration as well. Having to quickly think on the spot and improvise during workshops is quite difficult. I think the effects have been very positive.

Design 52

Design Strategy Architecture 52

Strategic Tech

JULY 24, 2022

In this article, I’m referring to question formats used in surveys, questionnaires, and workshops. Pre-workshop : questionnaires sent out to workshop attendees to help plan the final details of an upcoming workshop. It is a skill I would definitely encourage all leaders and facilitators to reflect on.

Strategy 52

Strategy Architecture Design Processing 52

Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

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. Design review is basically a code review but for architecture.

Design 52

Design Software Architecture Architecture Strategy 52

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. During one workshop, I asked a developer “How often does this go wrong?”. There was an industry expert consultant in the workshop.

Design 52

Design Processing Systems Strategy 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

Best Practices 145

Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? Every domain I model and every modelling workshop I run, different people like to slice up systems across different domain boundaries. The elements in Simon Wardley’s Strategy cycle are much more usable in my opinion.

Design 98

Design Strategy Systems Architecture 98

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Insight 2: There Are Established Strategies To Tackle Web App Accessibility Problems. In the following Insight, I will introduce you to strategies for supplying accessible notifications , including an easy implementation in Vue.js ( Strategy 1 ), then point you towards recommended patterns and their Vue counterparts ( Strategy 2 ).

Strategy 141

Strategy Virtualization Government Education 141

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.

Software Engineering 80

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

Strategic Tech

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? Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts.

Strategy 52

Strategy Innovation Technology Technology 52

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 following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops.

Software Architecture 52

Software Architecture Architecture Design Software 52

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In the computer architecture community, we have recently taken a number of initiatives to help mentor PhD students, however, we believe that there is a need for more mentoring opportunities and especially for focused mentoring opportunities. Next, we outline what we believe such a workshop should provide its students.

Architecture 49

Architecture Network Strategy Systems 49

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it? One thing I want you to notice is that good architecture is about more than just defining good boundaries. In DDD a bounded context is an independent, loosely-coupled architectural component.

Architecture 98

Architecture Government Design Availability 98

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. 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. The Strategy Cycle.

Strategy 97

Strategy Technology Technology Design 97

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way. I suggest regular domain discovery workshops to identify hidden domain coupling. This is an important leadership and strategy issue. Firstly, it’s essential to articulate clearly what the priorities are.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Strategic Tech

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. frontend, backend, DBAs).

Design 40

Design Architecture Software Architecture Systems 40

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

An Agile organization’s biggest architectural blindspot? Clever Value Stream Architecture designs for speed, visibility and traceability and it relies on APIs and abstraction. Creates a modular, Agile toolchain: Software innovators require a best-of-breed tool strategy. Its toolchain. Learn more.

Development 45

Development DevOps Google Innovation 45

Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the right set of business-centric metrics that focus on the flow of work across the product value stream, IT and business leaders can leverage objective real-time data to identify the bottlenecks slowing them down, inform investment strategy, and measure the impact of changes to steer them in the right direction.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Government Software 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

If you’re not familiar with this syntax, you can check out “ A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties ”.) Continue reading below ↓ Deep-dive into front-end accessibility with Carie Fisher in her upcoming Smashing workshop on Accessible Front-End Patterns. Jump to the workshop ?. framework architecture.

Website 142

Website Design Best Practices Code 142

O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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.

Software Architecture 9

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 9

Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Layers start to emerge and as a result, shipping new customer-facing features require changes that cut through multiple layers of the architecture. Being aware of the patterns inherent to layered sociotechnical architectures can save you a lot of pain and politics in the long-term. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?—?teams

Software Architecture 58

Software Architecture Architecture Government Design 58

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Read about our Architecture and Allocation Strategy , how we’ve been Reimagining Experimentation , our Design Principles for Mathematical Engineering , and how we leverage Computational Causal Inference to support innovation and scale on our democratized platform. Curious to learn more about XP, the Netflix Experimentation platform?

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?.

Design 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

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.

Systems 40

Systems Social Media Design Media 40

Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors. Implementers feel a responsibility to resist designs they feel would be detrimental to either their architecture or their competitive position. Essential Ingredients.

Design 40

Design Engineering Processing Games 40

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

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10