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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? A software system is a model of a domain.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s.

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

Strategic Tech

Problem, Strategy, and Solution Spaces To gain clarity on the terminology, it’s helpful to describe the various activities involved in building a product, which can then be grouped into buckets like problem and solution space or something else. In my work, I often encounter software developers who refer to the software as the solution space.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing.

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Sociotechnical Design Variables

Strategic Tech

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. Where are the boundaries in language where certain phrases have specific definitions? Business Model Role Shape boundaries based on role in the business model.

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What is a Domain?

Strategic Tech

This gets tricky at times when collaborating with different companies or communities that use different definitions. To reduce undesired ambiguity in communication consider using the specific definitions. I encounter this problem quite frequently when the word domain is used in the context of business and software architecture.

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Domain, Subdomain, Bounded Context, Problem/Solution Space in DDD: Clearly Defined

Strategic Tech

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. However, some concepts in DDD do not have a clear definition and are highly implicit. This definition of a domain is very fuzzy. Thank you to all involved.

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