Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD

Discussions of how to deliver software faster are ubiquitous in our communities. But trust is not often a key part of those discussions….

One thing I’ve been doing a lot this year is thinking about how to ask better questions. It’s not a skill I’ve deliberately tried to…

“If our teams were just organized in the right way, and we adopted the agile process, we’d be so much more efficient.”

The global community has largely decided that in-person events are now safe again. Does that mean the end for digital tools like Miro?

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. It’s…

In recent times there’s been a lot of activity in the visual collaboration space. Lots of new tools, techniques, canvases, and remixes have…

A common pattern of business growth is to expand from a single product to multiple products. But this can cause a clash of mindsets…

Summer 2021 was coming to a close and a new work project was starting up. I was looking forward to it, but at-at the same time I wasn’t…

It’s a common sight to see technology organization re-inventing aspects of their operating model. Often, it’s a combination of migrating to…

Practically everybody is doing domain-driven design in some form. When we build new products and services, we’re identifying unmet needs in…

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. At the start of the decade, Eric Ries disrupted traditional…

A difficult aspect of my job is understanding enough about a client’s purpose and landscape to offer useful advice and propose how I might…

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Techniques like big picture event storming are great…

There’s an aspect of Domain-Driven Design that rarely gets talked about. I think it’s the most important aspect of DDD, yet if you search…

If you like this Kata, check out another Kata I’ve published using the example of an online car dealership…

There is a long list of things I love about visual discovery and modelling techniques like Event Storming and Example Mapping. But there is…

In business, technology and general, the word “domain” appears frequently and with many different meanings in various contexts. This gets…

Where to begin modernizing your architecture? Is playing it safe the best way to start, or are there advantages to taking a few risks?

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for…

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death. But…

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude…

In February 2012 I began working for a new company. On my first day, I deployed to production. I was lost for words. It felt like magic…

Sometimes we need to stop fighting the symptoms and recognise that there is a more fundamental problem. Commonly, the fundamental problems…

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. In Geography, continents…