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.

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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 It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment. create a workshop on a particular technology that teams need to learn).

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

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. My advice is to use Simon Wardley’s Strategy Cycle as the basis for your narrative.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. E.g. having to maintain components built in multiple technologies. Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It used a proprietary hardware architecture incompatible with its predecessor PC products, and a new operating system (OS/2) that was only partially compatible with DOS, a product strategy not too dissimilar to what IBM did in the 1960s with the System/360 mainframe. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? There are usually a number of factors which greatly complicate the situation. The key is being able to identify the last toothpaste in the tube.

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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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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

In business, technology and general, the word “domain” appears frequently and with many different meanings in various contexts. I encounter this problem quite frequently when the word domain is used in the context of business and software architecture. an area of expertise or knowledge which can be owned by a single team.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Empowered teams benefit from domain empowerment and technology empowerment Even when domains and value streams are established, there is a need for continuous evolution. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.) ( Large preview ).

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Strategic Tech

MAY 9, 2020

If you want to get started with Strategic DDD to gain deeper insights into your domain and to align your software architecture with your domain, you can use this Miro board: [link] No sign up, installation, or payment is required to view the board. In order to use the tools you will need to copy them onto a board of your own.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” He had a strategy. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The elements in Simon Wardley’s Strategy cycle are much more usable in my opinion. Simon Wardley’s Strategy Cycle In Wardley’s Strategy Cycle, there are the following elements (with my simplified definitions): Purpose : what is the problem being solved / goal to be achieved in our domain(s) of interest?

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts. Maybe they weren’t invited for political reasons…. This technique plots the business differentiation and domain complexity of a business’s domains.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. We imagine that companies in the software industry are more likely to be early (or mid-stage) adopters of technologies like cloud computing.

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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

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?” I find that the more details added when fleshing out the domain (e.g. This is quite a big topic.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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