Domain, Subdomain, Bounded Context, Problem/Solution Space in DDD: Clearly Defined By Nick Tune
Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Famous DDD principles […]
Enterprise Architecture in a Product-Oriented DevOps World By Nick Tune
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning […]
Organising Large Miro Boards For Remote Workshops By Nick Tune
Back in the summer I shared some of the techniques I’d been using to reimagine my in-person architecture workshops as remote digital offerings with Miro. I’ve […]
Bounded Context Canvas Recipe: Use Case Swimlanes By Nick Tune
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 your […]
Is technical debt a real financial debt? By Christina Ljungberg
Developers are often frustrated over technical debt. Me too. I realise the power of new technology, cloud scalability, platform and device independent clients, and event-driven […]
Self-Documenting Architecture By Nick Tune
One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. And the problem may be growing. Systems are getting more […]
The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more) By Nick Tune
As an architect, how often are you thinking about business models? If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and […]
Why Microservices? By Christina Ljungberg
Microservices is a way of separating a system into smaller autonomous parts. This can be done in many ways, but I’m most into the event-driven […]
Should We Create a Shared Service? A Decision-making Checklist By Nick Tune
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 […]
Credit Science: the new discipline we’ve created to redefine borrowing for the Missing Middle By Sean Hunter
When it comes to commercial lending, credit analysis is an essential part of the process. Banks use it to assesses the ability of a business […]
Product-aligned vs Capability-aligned Organisation Design By Nick Tune
There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional activity-oriented organisation design (organising people by their […]
HOW TO WORK WITH SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE By Christina Ljungberg
Are there any good reasons to not continuously work with a system’s architecture? I don’t think so. In my opinion it should be part of […]