Nick Tune’s Strategic Technology Blog

Back in the summer I shared some of the techniques I’d been using to reimagine my in-person architecture workshops as remote digital…

Don’t let the tools you use overly-constrain your thinking. Use them as a starting point for design and discovery, and then bend them to…

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. And the problem may be growing. Systems are…

As an architect, how often are you thinking about business models? If every significant architecture decision has business consequences…

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some points as their systems drift into a state of intolerable…

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. This was necessitated by Covid. All my…

A free Miro whiteboard containing a selection of Strategic DDD tools for remote collaboration.

Both in the short-term and the long-term, there is a need for effective collaborative domain modelling techniques for remote teams.

Visualise your team’s process and you’ll uncover a higher quantity and higher quality opportunities for improving how you work as a team…

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams.

Sometimes you should design your bounded contexts like a physical library, preferring commands over events.

Time and resources are limited. How we spend our time and apply our resources when developing software systems is possibly the most…

Six months ago I shared a blog post introducing the Bounded Context Canvas. Since that post six months, I’ve received feedback from my own…

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. We can make exceptions or we can bypass a few steps to…

EventStorming is a hugely popular technique, allowing us to explore, analyse, and model business domains more effectively than traditional…

We have come to acknowledge in recent years that there is a strong relationship between the design of a software architecture and the…

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. Which one is…

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put…

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and…

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems —…

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a…

Your assumptions about software development are holding your business back. There are three questions you need to ask yourself.

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the…

In the perfect world, each team in our organisation would spend 100% of their time on improving products and delivering value to customers…