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. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

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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. In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. 1 hour) Candidate Context Modelling (min.

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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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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Why Thing Get Stuck After Discovery?

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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

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

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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