“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. You’re free to…

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…

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’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. It was before my time, but my understanding is that…

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. At the end of the decade, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais laid the foundations for the next decade of digital…