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It’s not precise to say: “If you cannot deal with monolith, microservices won’t work for you!”. The actual phrase should be: "If you can’t deal with modularity, then neither monoliths nor microservices will work for you." 3/

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We have failed as testers & developers to make software better. It's simply not up to us, and I think we should be honest towards ourselves about how little impact we have on quality.... read the post and make up your own mind. You can also keep sniffing the copium if that's what you prefer.

Evolution vs Revolution Invite over inflict. Not one size fits all. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. #BVSSH

The book or course I think should exist. "The absolute beginners guide to running your own apps in production" Starting at building apps that are meant to run in production, through CI/CD, managing data structure changes, producing/consuming/understanding telemetry and incident management.

No amount of automated tests can replace skilled, dedicated testers who know how to do exploratory testing 💪 — a software engineer From More Agile Testing, @janetgregoryca.bsky.social @lisacrispin.bsky.social I second that!!

But consensus isn’t always progress. It often leads to what the Dutch famously call “polderen”—a compromise where no one really gets what they want. The result? Solutions that look fine on paper but lack real buy-in. And without that, implementation stalls, leaving teams frustrated and momentum lost

Great post from @alidad.bsky.social on LinkedIn on systems thinking in general and the #sociotechnical in particular. www.linkedin.com/posts/alidad... Check out the comments too, with great input from @technologytulip.bsky.social.

No disagreements here on those two, but I do wonder if there's a *third* value of software, and that is WHAT WE LEARNED FROM CREATING IT. And, you might not surprised to hear, I think that might even be the *most* valuable thing.

I have been referred to someone called “The Beard” Not even kidding.

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My TBM Council write up www.forrester.com/blogs/a-week... “Product centricity isn’t just a leading-edge trend; in many large orgs, it’s a done deal…”

Business architecture = people architecture = technical architecture = business architecture... Antipattern: org design without consideration of the flow of value or the technical architecture. #BVSSH

And Brian Marick: 'In the 80's, Robert Glass analyzed bugs in fielded avionics software. Found faults of omission most important. I liked his characterization of them: "code not complex enough for the problem'' Jabe Bloom: "Sounds like Ashby's Law."

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Let me share my take-aways. 1. He borrows from Martin Fowler (a lot) - I like the idea of a conference talk titled "Martin Fowler talked about this 20 years ago!"

This principle matches @ruthmalan.bsky.social and Dana Bredemeyer's "minimalist architecture". More on this in this great article by @esilva.net: esilva.net/tla_insights...

💡I love @simon.bvssh.com's framing of enterprise architecture (and his continuous work on modernizing the topic): It is all about aligning (and considering) the business architecture, organizational structure, and systems architecture. Approaching things in isolation will lead to subpar outcomes!

Want to scale Agile? Don't. Continuously descale the work. Descaling the work IS scaling agility. Smaller teams, smaller increments of value, alleviating impediments to flow, breaking dependencies, with high alignment via OKRs, safety and minimal viable guardrails. #BVSSH

Watch the full talk youtu.be/ASE6Pt3fnxM?...

"Enterprise Architecture isn’t just about systems—it’s about aligning value streams, organizational structure & systems architecture for sustainable flow." - @simon.fadedglamour.com Ready to drive outcomes? Join us at the AmA Conf 2025! Schedule coming soon.

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