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The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

Strategic Tech

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? How does all of this relate to the software architecture?

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Sociotechnical Design Variables

Strategic Tech

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. There are so many benefits. A side note.

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Team Responsibility Ownership Patterns. Part 1: A Business Architecture Model

Strategic Tech

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. I’m not precious about any of the definition used in this article. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. Processes are also a hierarchical concept.

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Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

Strategic Tech

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. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

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Beyond Problem and Solution Space: Better models for modern product development

Strategic Tech

People use these words to try and articulate the types of work and activities they are referring to, or where they are in the process of building something new. Indi provides a precise definition of each space including the types of activities that fit within them. I often encounter the phrases problem space and solution space.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. 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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