Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

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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The Symphonia

MARCH 13, 2018

And of course, if you’re interested in getting some help in April or May for architecture review, DevSecCostOps (™) , or building a Lambda-backed proof-of-concept, then drop us a line. If you’re looking for training we have several tutorials and workshops on the calendar. See our complete speaking schedule here.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

My participation at these conferences is a mixture of talks and workshops. I’ve used Miro exclusively for my in-person workshops and talks, and I plan to for all upcoming events. Miro for In-person Workshops? At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop.

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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. I’m looking at this challenge from multiple angles, and one of them is figuring out the key information I need. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al.

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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?” The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? Software architects might want to see the domain boundaries for 100 microservices.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age. Lack of accountability leads to unmaintainable software that grows harder and harder to change.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

In every workshop, I always ask everyone “Imagine there is no text here. What do you read from the image below, and what might you propose to do next in the workshop? You can do this with almost any visual workshop technique. What is this arrangement of colours and shapes telling you?”.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas. We can use these to capture outcomes from the workshop aka follow-up actions. In my in-person workshops, I’ve faced this hard limitation.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams. These concepts also apply to distributed architectures.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way.

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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. With loosely-coupled architectures we can invest more granularly where payback is greatest. Diligently-crafted boundaries give us strategic-flexibility.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems. In the software system, we need to decide the business transaction boundaries aka DDD Aggregates.

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