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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

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Architecture modernization initiatives aim to convert aging architecture into modern architecture, applying the latest tech innovations and architectural patterns. The architecture becomes easier and cheaper to change, enabling faster flow, and reducing technical debt, fragility and security concerns.

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Pattern Reading in Visual Discovery and Modelling

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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? We’re not investing enough in potential future innovations and sources of revenue. You can do this with almost any visual workshop technique.

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Remote-optimised Domain Modelling: The Present and Future

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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. Anticipating Future Innovations The limitations that exist now for both in-person and remote modelling will not exist in the future.

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Product, Domain, and Team Architecture Overview Template

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Product Mode by Sriram Narayan Innovation Portfolio An innovation portfolio is invaluable because it expresses where products and platforms are in their lifecycle, revealing where each fits into the strategy. I’ve been using the Lean Innovation Portfolio for years.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

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The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. I suggest regular domain discovery workshops to identify hidden domain coupling.

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Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

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The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. The Warehousing Modernization Enabling Team (an AMET) has been established to guide modernization in the Warehousing domain, which consists of 100+ software engineers and a monolithic codebase.

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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

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One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Your core domain might be moving left because your competitor’s have launched a new innovation that renders yours obsolete. How do you go from event storm to product and organizational improvements? The third part of the narrative is the climate.