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. Domain message flow modelling is used for this step.

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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. Adding complexity to the software domain model to reduce operational complexity (e.g.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

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. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. Investing in design should be rewarded.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

To demonstrate this process, we will build a canvas for the following fictitious example (inspired by real examples from our consulting work): A large logistics company wants to expand into new verticals and integrate its offerings into an emerging open marketplace. You can also experiment with various workshop formats.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Consumer expectations are in a constant state of flux as new technological advancements arise and new competitors emerge, yet the goal is to continuously deliver products that satisfy market demand. Primary Heuristic 4: Respect Technical Constraints Technology imposes constraints. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

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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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