Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations. The example I see most often is complex manual processes ( Operational Complexity ) involving multiple people, excel spreadsheets, and a variety of tools.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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.

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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. Domain message flow modelling is used for this step.

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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. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. Domain Variables Domain Flow Direction How the business process flows through components. Domain Flow Control How is the business process controlled?

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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?” I find that the more details added when fleshing out the domain (e.g. This is quite a big topic.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It used a proprietary hardware architecture incompatible with its predecessor PC products, and a new operating system (OS/2) that was only partially compatible with DOS, a product strategy not too dissimilar to what IBM did in the 1960s with the System/360 mainframe. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.) ( Large preview ).

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. We imagine that companies in the software industry are more likely to be early (or mid-stage) adopters of technologies like cloud computing.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

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. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. Investing in design should be rewarded.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? The need to keep delivering product enhancements and new innovations while modernization is in process is one big factor, and dependencies between modernization work items is another.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

An example of a Domain Group A domain group is an internal service provider, exposing domain data and business process operations to experience-layer groups or other domain groups. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Each subdomain is owned by a separate team.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Consumer expectations are in a constant state of flux as new technological advancements arise and new competitors emerge, yet the goal is to continuously deliver products that satisfy market demand. Primary Heuristic 4: Respect Technical Constraints Technology imposes constraints. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

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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. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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