Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

While MVPs have been mainstream for a long time, the concept of Value Streams and Value Stream Architecture is still in the early adopter phase in the DevOps world. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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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. Examples include identity platforms, API platforms, and digital platforms that may be leveraged by multiple products. are a useful starting point.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. A good way to look at how this works can be seen through a few examples from Dynatrace customers that have set up this model. #1 Performance-as-a-self-service .

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

A common example of a Standalone Capability Group is Identity and Accounts. One example is the mobile department, a group of mobile development teams who each own a part of a mobile app. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. It must be combined with other capabilities to form a complete product.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

Problem, Strategy, and Solution Spaces To gain clarity on the terminology, it’s helpful to describe the various activities involved in building a product, which can then be grouped into buckets like problem and solution space or something else. Not all of the work we do addresses a problem that people have. But I hope you find it useful.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. Low Hanging Fruit vs Last Toothpaste in the Tube In the dream scenario, there is an area of the architecture which has a high value to the business when modernized and has little complexity. In the Architecture Modernization Sequencing Grid, this is the bottom right corner.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

We can learn a few things from these examples. For example, an industry is a domain where domain concepts are grouped based on commercial endeavour like the ride sharing industry. I encounter this problem quite frequently when the word domain is used in the context of business and software architecture. What is a Domain?

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. Domains are part of the logical architecture of a business.

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

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

In our AI adoption in the enterprise survey , for example, we had close to a 50/50 split between North America and the rest of the world. It’s likely that most respondents lack complete visibility into and across their organizations; in a large enterprise, for example, few if any people have this kind of panoptic view.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

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. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery.

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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?” For example: 3 Month Subscription Purchased. This information is recorded using a domain event.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

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. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? The elements in Simon Wardley’s Strategy cycle are much more usable in my opinion. Software architects might want to see the domain boundaries for 100 microservices. Domains are subjective and they are not mutually exclusive.

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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

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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. When a new product depends on an existing product, it’s often possible to remove friction-causing dependencies by rethinking domain, team, and software boundaries. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

IBM had launched the trademarked Personal Computer in 1981 using an open architecture of widely available components from 3rd party sources such as Intel and the fledgling Disk Operating System from an unknown firm in Seattle called Microsoft. These are all-in bets taken and lost, two examples of big bets that resulted in big routs.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A Software Example Consider the example of a marketplace for financial products. The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. with ice cream).

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop. Example 0.4 was originally published in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. For example, an organisation may have existing offices in five countries. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking.

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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).

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

There is a long list of things I love about visual discovery and modelling techniques like Event Storming and Example Mapping. Reading Domain Patterns In the example Event Storm below, orange represents events and red represents hot spots (aka discussion points) about the events they are next to. What do you see in the example below?

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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. Take a look at the following checklist and the example patterns and I’m sure you’re more likely to architect better systems in the future.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It’s an independent piece of software that sits conceptually at the edge of your architecture and mediates communication between agents outside the architecture and those within it. An Example Gateway Interchange Context Consider a software system for remotely managing and monitoring devices.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I’ll show you some example scenarios to help you understand this concept, and I’ll demonstrate sociotechnical architecture patterns you can apply in your organisation to optimise your alignment efficiency. For example, one team can notify other teams via email they are planning to release a new API.

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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. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

If the domain flow is complex with many dependencies and bi-directional relationships, for example, it’s a warning that your design is fragile and needs further analysis. An example Bounded Context Design Canvas after Activity 2 (note: this is a purely fictional domain; any likenesses are unintended) 4.3

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Check out Gojko Adzic’s talk People That Make Computers Go Crazy for many other real examples. The healthcare example used in this article is based on a discussion I recently had with Kacper Gunia based on the needs of a real client. It’s not a fake example and it is typical of the challenges we face when working with our clients.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. And it also engaged with the performance community as a whole, for example by attending conferences, bringing in domain experts, and studying up on modern architectures such as the Jamstack.

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