Strategic Tech

APRIL 12, 2023

Architecture Modernization is far more than just rebuilding the old system with new technologies and the latest architectural patterns. It’s an opportunity to completely rethink the UX, product functionality, business processes, and the domain model (and remove unneeded complexity). But a portfolio-based approach is crucial.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. performance, security) UX / Brand Perception: design decisions which have an impact on how users experience the system I’ve recently been collating some of the variables which exist in each of these areas, and they are presented in the remainder of this article.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid."

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Later sections of this article look at domain ownership and hybrid patterns. It’s a nice pattern which enables a single team to own the entire codebase, user experience, and deployment process. Check the Reviews team in the Org Design for Design Orgs example later in this article. There’s plenty still to think about.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Trends in software architecture, infrastructure, and operations.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

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. How much will modernizing this area of the architecture allow you to improve developer productivity? Thanks for reading my article.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. look for key business events which indicate state changes between different parts of the business process. Once you complete the following steps, repeat the process until you have defined all of your bounded contexts.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Team Flow Event Storming is also a great technique for mapping out and visualizing value stream-like processes collaboratively.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. As mentioned in our previous article, we recommend a name that reflects the team’s purpose and area of responsibility.

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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?” business, software, teams), it’s discovery structure. Check out my presentations and articles.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Don't be trapped by dogma A lot has been said and written about why something worked for Spotify may not apply to your organisation, and the purpose of this article is not to go in those discussions but to highlight practical issues with these models. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

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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? The architecture of the software could be sliced up into a Leasing context and a Car Pool context. If the answer is yes, it should probably not be coupled to your specific business process steps.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

I read an article on the death of Agile. It’s not the first article I’ve seen claiming that Agile is dead, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Agile is not, and never was, about getting developers to write software faster. It’s not about getting software developers to write code faster. Neckbeards?

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

In this article we’ll take a look at what’s possible now, in the near future and the distant future. This style of modelling will be slow and will not generate the huge insights of a chaotic, parallel modelling process. When we have loops, fan-ins, and fans-out in our domain processes, we can easily show them.

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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. I’ve kindly catalogued them for you in the remainder of this article. We don’t because, such perfect boundaries don’t exist.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

His articles, his talks, and his sublime visualisations have been referenced thousands of times. If information is less essential and does not require immediate processing to avoid teams becoming unaligned, the overheads of INSB alignment can be inefficient. Alignment Efficiency is inspired by aerodynamic efficiency.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. 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.

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