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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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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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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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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.

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

Strategic Tech

Indi provides a precise definition of each space including the types of activities that fit within them. Marty’s definitions appear to fit nicely with Indi’s definitions of problem space and product discovery (the first half of her 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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