When "traditional" approaches to architecture break down I'll be honest, “traditional” approaches to software architecture (i.e. non-coding, decision-taking, diagram-drawing) are hard for me to make work at the best of…
Within each normal-sized team, limit the choice of alternatives for any class of technology to three. These are: the current sensible default, the one we're experimenting with as a trial,…
Technology governance and what is considered ‘good architecture’ is mostly considered with a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Many organisations try to apply the same strict governance at all levels…
Now that we have an understanding of the fundamental components of a Compliance process, we can examine some common implementation patterns with this lens. Understanding how each pattern maps back…
When we wrote the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, our supporters were a small minority trying to change an industry. Now, twenty years later, “agile” is mainstream. But I write…
Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system? Do you leave stakeholder…
Responsible Tech Playbook Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. I’ve long maintained that this places a…
Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites. Forward-thinking organizations have…
Interesting software rarely lives in isolation. The software a team writes usually has to interact with external systems, these may be libraries, remote calls to external services, interactions with a…
