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 It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment.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

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

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

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

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. You can also experiment with various workshop formats. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

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? Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? The same concepts can belong to different domains When modelling systems we have to choose the most appropriate domain boundaries with which to align our software and organisational boundaries. It is too ambiguous and more precision is needed.

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