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. Who to invite? I recommend organising attendees into groups of 4–5 people.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When architecture ages without proper care, it becomes more and more of a liability and competitive disadvantage. It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment. They are also a vital step toward defining the Kickstarter workshop.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations. There is a good balance of business, technology, and organizational improvements.

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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. Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking.

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