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Slow down to speed up your decision-making – Gien Verschatse
We are a community-driven platform for people who want to get more in-depth knowledge of systems and software design for solving complex business problems. While we began with Domain-Driven Design, we now explore a wider range of topics that are relevant to designing and building resilient systems. We aim to share knowledge in a decentralised way so that every member can contribute and learn from others.
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Latest sessions
The paradox or polarity between decentralised and centralised decision-making
When it comes to giving software teams the autonomy to make their own decisions, trust can be a delicate thing. This is particularly true when those decisions can have a wider impact on other teams and the overall system. If organizations are shifting towards...
Slow down to speed up your decision-making – Gien Verschatse
Software teams often reach for Kubernetes or similar prepackaged answers as default solutions to complex problems. But Kubernetes isn’t a strategy—it’s a tool. Using it prematurely can bury your team in unnecessary complexity and unwanted consequences. These...
Escaping the Enshittification Trap: Systems Thinking for Sustainable Quality
💡 7pm New Zealand time, please check the event time in your time-zone. In this talk, we’ll explore quality as an emergent property of our teams, tools, and processes—not just something we test at the end. We’ll look at challenges like speed to market and...
Impact Mapping – The Secret Sauce
Details "Impact mapping is a lightweight, collaborative planning technique for teams that want to make a big impact with software products. It is based on user interaction design, outcome-driven planning and mind mapping. Impact maps help delivery teams and...
How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed
"I would have killed that if it was just me, 100%,” said Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek about Discover Weekly, a feature that would become one of Spotify’s most loved product features, almost a brand in itself. Designers and senior engineers were equally...
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A design methodology for reliable software systems
Splitting the Organization and Integrating the Code: Conway’s Law Revisited
On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
Design heuristics >>
Heuristics we use to solve a specific problem
Guiding heuristics >>
Heuristics that guide our use of other heuristics (meta-heuristics, if you will)
Value-based heuristics >>
Heuristics that determine our attitude and behavior towards design or the world and the way we work
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Recent Github Repositories
Welcome to Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
This project contains definitions of DDD and fundamental concepts to reduce the learning curve and confusion. Getting started with DDD DDD is not an all-or-nothing deal. You can apply the ideas from DDD as much or as little as you feel is beneficial to the project...
Domain-Driven Design Starter Modelling Process
This process gives you a step-by-step guide for learning and practically applying each aspect of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) - from orienting around an organisation’s business model to coding a domain model. Using this process will guide you through each of the...
EventStorming Glossary & Cheat sheet
EventStorming is the smartest approach to collaborate beyond silo boundaries. The power of EventStorming comes from a diverse multi-disciplined group of people who, together, have a lot of wisdom and knowledge. While it originally was invented for a workshop to model...
organisers
Marco Heimeshoff
Business software artist
Maxime Sanglan-Charlier
Connecting people circa 97
Krisztina Hirth
Coding Architect
Zsofia Herendi
Flow addict PM
Andrea Magnorsky
Systems and Functional Programming
Kenny (Baas) Schwegler
Deep Democratic modeller
Diana Montalion
Nonlinear thinker
