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. The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. This is an important leadership and strategy issue. Uber started life as a ride-hailing product.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Start by mapping out the current state of your domains If you’re not sure what your domains are, I have created a Strategic DDD Kata which provides a scenario for you to practice designing domain boundaries. The future automated process needs to be carefully designed, not just a a copy of the existing manual process.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts. We’re not investing enough in potential future innovations and sources of revenue. Maybe they weren’t invited for political reasons….

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. But there are a series of heuristics, or questions we can ask ourselves, to improve our chances of making the right sociotechnical design decision.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Platforms provide the foundation for higher levels of innovation. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Architecture 98

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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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. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

When attempting to explore innovation opportunities, the need for urgent alignment is greater. When the new innovation requires functionality and data from existing products and services, one approach is for the new innovation to be partially owned by each team which the new product cuts across.

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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. He laid out a mission.

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