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The Agility Series — 8 — Technology Tail, Not Head

The Agility Series — 8 — Technology Tail, Not Head

No matter how much the world of technology grows, it is always in response to an idea or a need or both to a real-world opportunity. This…
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The Agility Series — 7— A Leaders Golden Opportunity

The Agility Series — 7— A Leaders Golden Opportunity

Know this:
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The Agility Series — 6— Cure Translations & Save Big

The Agility Series — 6— Cure Translations & Save Big

I am going to describe something that happens all the time, preventing agility in software, wasting money, and frustrating Product Owners…
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The Agility Series — 5 — Team ID Theft

The Agility Series — 5 — Team ID Theft

IT to Business Identity Theft
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The Agility Series — 4 — Success Metrics

The Agility Series — 4 — Success Metrics

If you read Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, when it first was published (Forsgren et al., 2018)…
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The Agility Series — 3— A New Era of Adaptable Software Development

The Agility Series — 3— A New Era of Adaptable Software Development

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The Agility Series — 2— Facing Rigidity

The Agility Series — 2— Facing Rigidity

You’re in the software planning meeting. Tensions are high. Developers are trying to avoid wrong estimates. Marketing and operations want…
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The Agility Series — 1 — Agile: Adjective Not Noun.

The Agility Series — 1 — Agile: Adjective Not Noun.

Team: “We are so Agile!”
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Big Blue Series — 19 — Healthy Modularity Enables the “ilities”

Big Blue Series — 19 — Healthy Modularity Enables the “ilities”

We all hear about it. We need scalability, agility or flexibility, elasticity, maintainability, and I could go on and on. What I am…
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Pub Talk — Reflecting on the Big Blue Series — First 18: The Basics of DDD.

Pub Talk — Reflecting on the Big Blue Series — First 18: The Basics...

When I was young, I thought all learning is best done in school. Turns out much learning is not anywhere near a college campus. There is a…
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Big Blue Series — 18 — Repositories Save and Recall those Organisms

Big Blue Series — 18 — Repositories Save and Recall those Organisms

When I look at modeling a Domain, I see it as an exercise of secluding one idea from another and building interactions between those ideas…
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Big Blue Series — 17 — Factories: A Pattern for Software Consistency

Big Blue Series — 17 — Factories: A Pattern for Software Consistency

I once was asked to help design automation of an essential oil distillation factory. The reason the company owner wanted this automation…
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Big Blue Series — 16 — Aggregating Objects into Domain Organisms

Big Blue Series — 16 — Aggregating Objects into Domain Organisms

You knew there was going to be a kitten photo at some point! I’ll reference that idea in a moment.
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Big Blue Series — 15 — Staying Well Informed with Domain Events

Big Blue Series — 15 — Staying Well Informed with Domain Events

When I was growing up, I loved to be with friends so much that I would be out passed the time I should be home. I would forget to call my…
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Big Blue Series — 14 — Powerfully Flexible Functionality By Design

Big Blue Series — 14 — Powerfully Flexible Functionality By Design

Imagine building a kit car to spec all the way down to a glossy coat of paint only to find out a critical piece of the motor, a small pin…
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Big Blue Series — 13 — From Values to Value Objects

Big Blue Series — 13 — From Values to Value Objects

We sometimes get into a conversation about something that seems simple, only to find out that it has far more depth that matters than we…
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Big Blue Series — 12 — Identifiably Unique Entities

Big Blue Series — 12 — Identifiably Unique Entities

In Domain-Driven Design (Evans, 2014), the book I am calling “Blue” in this series, we have some building blocks to work with in the…
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Domain Designer/Programmer and Recruitment

Domain Designer/Programmer and Recruitment

Has a friend asked for help that you knew would not really help them? Did you help them against your better judgement? I have. When it…
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Big Blue Series — 11 — When Modeling, Seek Only Domain Concerns

Big Blue Series — 11 — When Modeling, Seek Only Domain Concerns

A model is a lot like a bread recipe that has dynamic capabilities. When you are modeling, hopefully you are using the Domain, to…
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Big Blue Series — 10 — Consistent Terms Bring Peace

Big Blue Series — 10 — Consistent Terms Bring Peace

“You’re not going to want to hear this.” is the negative cousin of “You want the good news or the bad news first?”
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Big Blue Series — 09 — Domain Value Sort

Big Blue Series — 09 — Domain Value Sort

Living in Nashville brought to light just how serious musicians can be about their signature sound. Many wanted to be able to play like…
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Big Blue Series — 08 — Context as a Strategy

Big Blue Series — 08 — Context as a Strategy

If you have kept up with these articles in the Big Blue Series, you will see there is a great amount of emphasis in Domain-Driven Design…
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Big Blue Series — 07— Object or Organism Oriented?

Big Blue Series — 07— Object or Organism Oriented?

So far, I have used only a few minutes of your time in small bursts if you read all of the Big Blue Series so far to lay a foundation for…
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Big Blue Series — 06–Model as Truth Mediator

Big Blue Series — 06–Model as Truth Mediator

If your team is set up to be collaborative, and you feel alone, something is off. Way off. Introvert or extrovert, loneliness is impactful…
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