This article was co-authored by Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog) and me based on our individual and collective experiences. This article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). …

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. The scale of something influences the importance and how we treat it. Making scale explicit can lead to all kinds of…

Discussions of how to deliver software faster are ubiquitous in our communities. There’s a lot of noise around processes and organizational structures, but not much around improving trust as an enabler for fast flow. I’ve had a number of conversations and experiences this year that have really put trust at…

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 develop much in the past so I spend a lot of time thinking about every single question. Learning to ask better questions has definitely been…

“If our teams were just organized in the right way, and we adopted the agile process, we’d be so much more efficient.” What’s your feeling when reading that quote? Are you strongly in agreement, generally in agreement, or perhaps you’re shaking your head in disagreement? The quote reflects a sentiment…

The global community has largely decided that in-person events are now safe again. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been to two in-person conferences in the UK and one in Portugal. And in the next two months I’ll be attending in-person events in Budapest and Amsterdam. My participation at…

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 completely free to use and there is no marketing involved, just copy the contents from this Miro board into a Miro board of your own. …

In recent times there’s been a lot of activity in the visual collaboration space. Lots of new tools, techniques, canvases, and remixes have appeared, gaining a lot of momentum from the pandemic-driven move to remote working and digital tools like Miro. I think the effects have been very positive. More…

A common pattern of business growth is to expand from a single product to multiple products. Sometimes, this can be achieved with relatively minimal disruption, like when the products are highly distinct and can be developed fully in-parallel. This is often not the case, however. As some companies become multi-product…