Nick Tune’s Strategic Tech Blog

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…

Platforms which enable digital ecosystems are growing in prevalence. Organisations want, and need, to expose their APIs as an enabler for…

There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional…

You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly…

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them…

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…

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery…

Cross-team dependencies can be the source of immense pain and friction, resulting in all kinds of organisational dysfunctions and politics…

How we define team boundaries and shape the architecture of our software systems is one of the biggest influencers of how successfully we…

We say that architecture should be evolutionary — continuously adjusting itself to better serve business needs. What does an architectural…

We must all think of ourselves as sociotechnical architects.

How to kick offstrategic design efforts to design autonomous systems

Modern organisations are infinitely complex systems. Layers of inextricably interlinked dependencies between people, policy, and…

You’ve probably heard the advice to align your development teams with business capabilities — cross-functional, autonomous, product-focused…

The way we design modern organisations for agile delivery is akin to Football in the 1800s. Little strategy, but lots of mindless running…

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…

We are currently witnessing a generational shift in the evolution of digital product development. Software architects who wish to thrive in…

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…