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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. When interviewing software engineers, I always provide at-home coding tests which focus on design.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread .

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Visualising Sociotechnical Architecture with DDD and Team Topologies

Strategic Tech

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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Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

Strategic Tech

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

The engineering organisation described may not work for you because of a team of 8-10 people is still a very big overhead. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering? Probably yes.

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The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic

Strategic Tech

The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic 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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Uncovering Hidden Business Rules with DDD Aggregates

Strategic Tech

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.