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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

Strategic Tech

Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. An AMET is an architecture Enabling Team that helps to coordinate and upskill all teams and stakeholders involved in a modernization initiative. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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All In

The Agile Manager

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. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today. As the 1990s business strategy sage M.

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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.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment

Strategic Tech

Ideally, all of our teams would be delivering at maximum speed and would all be heading in the same direction, highly-aligned with business goals. Unfortunately, we need to balance speed and alignment, and how we make this trade-off is not clear because not all alignment has the same cost. A heuristics-based approach is needed.

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Domain Services: The Next (small) Evolution of Microservices

Strategic Tech

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. But, the over-focus on micro has detracted from the true benefits of microservices which are about improving the quality and speed of development. Domains are part of the logical architecture of a business. Other drawbacks will surely emerge.