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 exactly sure what to expect. It looked like there would be elements of the type of work I regularly do, but also…
It’s a common sight to see technology organization re-inventing aspects of their operating model. Often, it’s a combination of migrating to modern cloud technologies, adopting new organizational models, and striving for better ways of working.
I find that modernization is often triggered by market pressures, such as not being able…
Practically everybody is doing domain-driven design in some form. When we build new products and services, we’re identifying unmet needs in a particular domain, and then building tools, with models in software, that help people to achieve their unmet needs.
The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. At the start of the decade, Eric Ries disrupted traditional approaches to building digital products with The Lean Startup. …
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 be able to help. …
One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Techniques like big picture event storming are great for mapping out the business and visualising problems and opportunities, but that’s where progress can easily get stuck. …
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 online for “Domain-Driven Design”, you won’t find it.
This treasure has been hiding in plain sight all along. It’s the Share Pie story in chapter 8…
If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. …
There is a long list of things I love about visual discovery and modelling techniques like Event Storming and Example Mapping. But there is one benefit of visual techniques which I find so valuable and yet doesn’t get the recognition it deserves: pattern reading.
What I mean by pattern reading…
In business, technology and general, the word “domain” appears frequently and with many different meanings in various contexts. This gets tricky at times when collaborating with different companies or communities that use different definitions.
The problem in general is that when we use generic and fuzzy words like domain we…
