“The hardest part (of deciding) is framing the problem. It is also the part we spend the least amount of time on.” This is _so_ true. 👏🏻 @gienverschatse.com closing #NewCrafts #Paris 2025.

Hypothesis: Because "sociotechnical architecture" is necessary, but no way near sufficient? That sociotechnical is about the social being at least equally important as the technical. Conway is just a signal, an eye-opener to the real problem that is joint optimisation of the two.

“Anarchy doesn’t mean you can’t organise, but it should be done voluntary, functional, temporal and small”

At @newcrafts.bsky.social watching @andrewhl.bsky.social talk about anarchy and how we can organise ourselves differently in our company instead of the hierarchy we have gotten so used to.

Really do think it is risky to use that model to implement our IT systems, an the other way around, that we limit our framing to what we can do in code. What we implement is a reductionistic version of it, a closed system. The model we create for understanding should encapsulate the complexity.

It's also that people seem to read weird things into it, like all models are equally wrong, or all models are equally useful, or all models are useful on the same parameters, or that models are uniformly wrong or useful irrespective of context. I could go on.

Tonight, at Goldie, Oslo 👻

– Nivået på kodingen er lavere nå, enn for fire år siden, sier sensor, og tror dagens studenter mangler mengdetrening. 🤖 – De spør ofte KI-verktøyene om å kode for dem, bekrefter student.

The talk by @trond.hjorteland.com just finished and it left me feeling full of curiosity and things I want to learn more about. I really enjoyed that he talked about systems in terms of teams, forests, open and closed, philosophy , Ackhoff, Meadows and so much more virtualddd.com/sessions/see...

"Everyone wants to be on the top right corner" @trond.hjorteland.com doing an amazing talk at @virtualddd.com Live now www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B7A...

𝐂𝐲𝐛𝟑𝐫𝐒𝐲𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 - 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐𝟕 In today's episode, @eikonne.bsky.social discusses how traditional management practices impede real human development and why it's critical to challenge prevailing paradigms. Podcast Link 🔗: www.cyb3rsyn.com/p/becoming-a...

How every history and science textbook should start

"[that team] they're lazy, unresponsive, take ages to deliver new features, cause a lot of bugs, don't following good testing practices, everybody complains about them" I heard this a lot as a consultant and I was always curious to meet these teams and see how dysfunctional they were. 1/4

Hey everyone! Long time no see! 😃 After #FastFlowConf last week, I went offline to enjoy a short vacation with the family. And here are the slides from my talk, "Team Topologies is not enough; you need a management model to match!". 👉 speakerdeck.com/joaoasrosa/t...

Kick off your weekend with a dose of inspiration - we've got the DDD Europe 2024 talk ready for you to revisit. Like what you see? Join us at our next event on June 10-11-12, 2026 in Antwerp - tickets are on sale now! 🎬 Watch: youtu.be/M1WsSJEMUIY

I look forward to returning to Berlin and the wonderful #KanDDDinsky conference this week. Really happy to be able to speak there again. I will challenge the approach many companies have to agile transformations #systemsThinking #sociotechnical #selfOrganisation #agile #teamTopologies #orgDesign

. @andrewhl.bsky.social’s revolutionary approach to architecture is live! Learn how everyone can contribute without creating chaos. Watch his talk on democratizing decisions & subscribe for more perspectives! youtu.be/zp9Go2ChAdw #amaberlin

Very much looking forward to @trond.hjorteland.com joining us at @virtualddd.com

What code reviews should not be: * Ways to exercise power - it should be true peer reviews * Done by seniors missing mentoring skills * blaming or harming * a miserable experience * gate keeping (gates introduce delays) * a must @tdpauw.bsky.social #agilecam

One of my software design nemeses is reliance on the UI to enforce business rules. I don't mean hard-coding business logic in the UI, I mean assuming that certain operations or state transitions aren't possible because a user must go through the steps in the UI in a certain order. 1/3 #ddDesign

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

In a week! Still some seats on flash sale. Join us? See 👇 sample sections.

Friday reflection time! Take a moment to watch this NewCrafts highlight before diving into your weekend adventures: youtu.be/JSAiS2UyMUE. See you back here next Friday!

OH: YAGNI is contextual. Everything is contextual. One of the very worst software issues globally is people not understanding that.

We've scheduled a new session on a common challenge: seeing the whole system beyond our own part. Trond Hjorteland will introduce systems thinking to help us gain a holistic perspective on complexity. 4 November, 08:00 (GMT+13) buff.ly/LOxeRke

Ghost decisions can cast a long shadow, influencing everything from technology choices to team structures. Listen to our latest Story on Facilitating Software Architecture and Design to learn more buff.ly/5kb55OP

Suspect many will get a hands-on experience of what the ironies of automation is all about with all this LLM assisted coding.

"In a complex system, control does not emanate from a single source. Should this happen, the system would become degenerate, lose its adaptability and survive only as long as the environment remained stable." —Paul Cilliers

We now have a generation of developers who’ve never experienced an alternative to blocking code reviews. But pull requests aren’t anyone’s security blanket, and it will only take a new fashion to change this. Thierry’s excellent presentation is a call to action for the trend setters.

NORWAY! Øyafestival AUGUST 12, 2026 TICKETS - oyafestivalen.seetickets.com

📸 The memories live on! We’ve uploaded a full album of pictures from JavaZone 2025 – relive the energy, the code, and the community. client.stillwords.co... And yes… while you’re scrolling, know that we’ve already started sketching out plans for JavaZone 2026. Stay tuned!

Salmon wasn’t used in sushi until the 1980s when Norway produced too much salmon and launched ad campaigns in Japan to sell some of their excess fish.

We’re moving our main home for events from Meetup to Humanitix. Follow us on Humanitix (Our new home for events): buff.ly/BybdgFk #VirtualDDD #DomainDrivenDesign #Community #Humanitix #TechForGood

Have been looking forward to this talk coming out - had so much fun playing with the loopy causal loop diagrams, check it out 😀 Special thanks to @paulrayner.bsky.social for feedback and advice the night before this one! @dddeu.bsky.social #systemsthinking

I'm excited to be talking next week @gotocon.com (Copenhagen) about how to make architecture work in todays complex, ever-evolving world. There will be lots about the Architecture Advice Process, and a wee drop of anarchy too. (But no chaos, promise.) Come and find me for a chat if you're there.

Learn practical strategies for modernizing legacy systems! @esilva.net and @nick-tune.me 's talk on architecture modernization is now live, addressing both technical challenges and organizational dynamics. youtu.be/1DgrySggdCE #AmABerlin

ICYMI: I wrote about how your domains and bounded contexts don't map 1 on 1. #DDDesign verraes.net/2025/08/doma...

One of the weird things about history, is that we see it from the wrong end. Thus our idea of fascists, tend to be people in sharp uniforms, marching and running concentration camps. 1/3

What if you could ditch the prepared slides and adapt your talk to the audience in real time? That's what I got to experiment with yesterday at the Frontify software talks meetup in St. Gallen. My talk was about technical leadership and facilitating better architectural decision-making. Instead ->

Super sad that @andrewhl.bsky.social can't join us and also happy we get to collaborate with @kenny.weave-it.org talking about "The paradox or polarity between decentralised and centralised decision-making" See you there

We scheduled a new session with Andrew Harmel-Law on anarchist thought & socio-technical design. A look at alternatives to top-down hierarchy for building better teams. 📅 23 Sept at 19:00 NZST #DDD #SocioTechnical buff.ly/Bmvoiwe #DomainDrivenDesign #SocioTechnicalSystems #SoftwareArchitecture

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

We've been putting some much-needed love into our virtual DDD community! We're evolving beyond just Domain-Driven Design to become the worldwide online community for designing software to solve complex business problems, organised in a decentralised way. -->

Bridge business needs and IT solutions! @kenny.weave-it.org & Evelyn Van Kelle share facilitation techniques for sustainable design. Watch their talk now and subscribe for more on collaborative design! youtu.be/xOHax5k_wJo #AmABerlin

📜 Missed the gathering at JavaZone, or wish to relive its glory? Fear not — the scrolls of wisdom (talks) will soon be unveiled on our Vimeo forum: vimeo.com/javazone Ave JavaZone! 🏛️

Recording of my intro talk on systems thinking at @javazone.bsky.social earlier today. In Norwegian this time. The longer English version will be available from DDD Europe soon, I hope. vimeo.com/1115921379 #systemsThinking #OpenSystemsTheory #JavaZone

It's strange to think that patriarchal norms can affect the way we build software, but they do. I'm happy to share that the article my wife, Vanessa, and I wrote has been published in the @nljug.bsky.social Java magazine. It was our first time writing an article together, and it was...

With @kenny.weave-it.org and @andrewhl.bsky.social we are creating a series about our stories on facilitating software architecture. How to move towards decentralisation no matter how your organisation operates (because it might just improve things) We would love your stories too, questions welcome

Talked about “socio-technical API patterns” at #JavaZone today and the recording is already available! vimeo.com/1115443700?f...

Together with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social, I’ve launched a new series on Facilitating Software Architecture and Design. We’ll share practical ways to decentralize architecture, no matter your role or context. Curious why you’d want to do that? The first episode is out now.