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Gateway Interchange Contexts
Gateway Interchange Contexts
When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the…
Nick Tune
Feb 14
Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment
Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment
In the perfect world, each team in our organisation would spend 100% of their time on improving products and delivering value to customers…
Nick Tune
Dec 2, 2018
Organisational Fluidity in Digital Ecosystem Platform Design: Strategic Alliance Teams
Organisational Fluidity in Digital Ecosystem Platform Design: Strategic Alliance Teams
Platforms which enable digital ecosystems are growing in prevalence. Organisations want, and need, to expose their APIs as an enabler for…
Nick Tune
Nov 25, 2018
Product-aligned vs Capability-aligned Organisation Design
Product-aligned vs Capability-aligned Organisation Design
There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional…
Nick Tune
Oct 14, 2018
Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes
Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes
You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly…
Nick Tune
Sep 29, 2018
The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic
The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic
A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them…
Nick Tune
Aug 26, 2018
Primary Sociotechnical Design Heuristics
Primary Sociotechnical Design Heuristics
There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Yet there is no flowchart we can…
Nick Tune
Jul 17, 2018
The Challenges and Traps of Architecting Sociotechnical Systems
The Challenges and Traps of Architecting Sociotechnical Systems
Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery…
Nick Tune
Jun 23, 2018
Managing and Eliminating Cross-team Dependencies
Managing and Eliminating Cross-team Dependencies
Cross-team dependencies can be the source of immense pain and friction, resulting in all kinds of organisational dysfunctions and politics…
Nick Tune
Jun 1, 2018
Aligning Organisation Design & Software Architecture with Business Strategy: Business Capability…
Aligning Organisation Design & Software Architecture with Business Strategy: Business Capability…
How we define team boundaries and shape the architecture of our software systems is one of the biggest influencers of how successfully we…
Nick Tune
May 19, 2018
Evolutionary Sociotechnical Architecture Patterns
Evolutionary Sociotechnical Architecture Patterns
We say that architecture should be evolutionary — continuously adjusting itself to better serve business needs. What does an architectural…
Nick Tune
Apr 4, 2018
An Introduction to Sociotechnical Architecture Patterns
An Introduction to Sociotechnical Architecture Patterns
We must all think of ourselves as sociotechnical architects.
Nick Tune
Mar 28, 2018
‘Intentional Naivety First’ Bounded Context Modelling
‘Intentional Naivety First’ Bounded Context Modelling
How to kick offstrategic design efforts to design autonomous systems
Nick Tune
Feb 8, 2018
Managing Complexity in Complex Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design
Managing Complexity in Complex Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design
Modern organisations are infinitely complex systems. Layers of inextricably interlinked dependencies between people, policy, and…
Nick Tune
Jan 10, 2018
Aligning Teams with Business Capabilities to Improve Flow… Why You Shouldn’t
Aligning Teams with Business Capabilities to Improve Flow… Why You Shouldn’t
You’ve probably heard the advice to align your development teams with business capabilities — cross-functional, autonomous, product-focused…
Nick Tune
Dec 27, 2017
The Continuous Organisation Design Playbook
The Continuous Organisation Design Playbook
The way we design modern organisations for agile delivery is akin to Football in the 1800s. Little strategy, but lots of mindless running…
Nick Tune
Nov 7, 2017
KanDDDinsky Strategic DDD Workshop Review & Materials
KanDDDinsky Strategic DDD Workshop Review & Materials
I’m just home from a mind-blowing few days in Berlin for the KanDDDinsky conference. On day two of the conference, Zsofia Herendi and I ran…
Nick Tune
Oct 24, 2017
Evolutionary Pressures Forcing Software Architects to Adapt
Evolutionary Pressures Forcing Software Architects to Adapt
We are currently witnessing a generational shift in the evolution of digital product development. Software architects who wish to thrive in…
Nick Tune
Sep 16, 2017
Designing Captivating Workshops
Designing Captivating Workshops
Everyone loves a well designed workshop where they learn valuable new skills at the same time as having lots of fun, and it’s good for…
Nick Tune
Aug 19, 2017
Becoming an Agile Tech Strategist
Becoming an Agile Tech Strategist
If you’re a developer who dreams about contributing to important architectural choices and multi-team technical direction, you need to…
Nick Tune
May 18, 2017
Tech Strategy: You Need it, But What is it?
Tech Strategy: You Need it, But What is it?
Nick Tune
Apr 14, 2017
The Strategic Practices of Domain-Driven Design
The Strategic Practices of Domain-Driven Design
Nick Tune
Mar 16, 2017
Enabling Coevolution of Organisational & Technical Boundaries
Enabling Coevolution of Organisational & Technical Boundaries
Nick Tune
Feb 11, 2017
Finding Service Boundaries: The One Rule That Matters
Finding Service Boundaries: The One Rule That Matters
Nick Tune
Jan 6, 2017
Confusing Process Stages With Bounded Contexts
Confusing Process Stages With Bounded Contexts
Nick Tune
Dec 17, 2016
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