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

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. 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

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The elements in Simon Wardley’s Strategy cycle are much more usable in my opinion. Simon Wardley’s Strategy Cycle In Wardley’s Strategy Cycle, there are the following elements (with my simplified definitions): Purpose : what is the problem being solved / goal to be achieved in our domain(s) of interest?

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Strategic Tech

MAY 9, 2020

If you want to get started with Strategic DDD to gain deeper insights into your domain and to align your software architecture with your domain, you can use this Miro board: [link] No sign up, installation, or payment is required to view the board. In order to use the tools you will need to copy them onto a board of your own.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

In upcoming blog posts I will be providing anonymised case studies demonstrating the the context-specific use of these heuristics. ??Primary If you’d like help sharing your case study or would like to arrange a hands-on session to model your sociotechnical architecture, please contact me. Remember that heuristics are more like clues.

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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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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

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. So remember to always keep the chocolate sauce heuristic in mind: Classification is multi-dimensional.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe.

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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. Creating a shared dependency can boost the productivity of downstream teams. Should We Create a Shared Service?

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

This organisational pattern can be mirrored in the software architecture, emphasising the sociotechnical nature of systems. While it is nice to go out of your way to please others, the resulting compromises to the software architecture can lead to dangerous sociotechnical side-effects.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If you like the content in this article, and want to learn more about using Domain-Driven Design to create a loosely-coupled architecture and organisational structure, keep an eye out for my upcoming public workshops , or contact me for private consulting and training opportunities.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. To get you started, you can find a collection of heuristics on my site.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Gateway Interchange Contexts was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. The GIC is also risky in that business rules could start to creep in. It’s essential that the GIC does the minimum amount of translation.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2019

Mapper Contexts & Supercontexts: Decoupling Domain-Specific and Domain-Generic Bounded Contexts was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020. Hope to see you there.

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