Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. This workshop format is designed around both of these needs and uses two tools in order to find the most effective system design: EventStorming and the Bounded Context Design Canvas. Look for pivotal events?—?look

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In fact, Software Design EventStorming is like a DSL for designing business processes that translate directly into code.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

?? Primary Heuristic 2: Align with Business Domain Unless we’re a startup that is constantly pivoting, macro parts of our business processes will remain stable over long periods of time. Putting Heuristics into Practice We still don’t have a flowchart yet for designing sociotechnical systems but we’re bringing more structure to the process.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

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. This style of modelling will be slow and will not generate the huge insights of a chaotic, parallel modelling process.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. We had a three step business process, and each web page neatly-belonged to one of the business process steps, and each business process step was a team boundary.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. The answer is performance, but more importantly concurrency conflicts. Performance and concurrency aren’t a concern. Performance and concurrency matter so much more that correctness and simplicity need to be compromised.

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