by Organisers @virtualddd | Apr 7, 2026
We fight about Agile versus Six Sigma, build versus buy, in-house versus outsourced. We pick our methodology camps and defend them. But most of these battles miss the point entirely. That's the challenge Simon Wardley shared with us in this installment of Stories...
by Organisers @virtualddd | Mar 31, 2026
We often assume that resolving a major outage requires centralized command and control—getting the right experts in a room and coordinating their efforts until the problem is solved. But sometimes the best thing incident commanders can do is create space for the right...
by Organisers @virtualddd | Mar 17, 2026
We hit resistance in our architecture work, and what do we do? We explain more. We create another diagram, write another document, schedule another meeting to walk through the rationale. After twenty years of this pattern, Diana Montalion realized she was pushing the...
by Organisers @virtualddd | Mar 3, 2026
It happens more often than we admit: architectural decisions get made not through careful analysis, but because one person in the room speaks louder than everyone else. The consequences ripple outward—through the codebase, through the team, through people's...
by Organisers @virtualddd | Feb 17, 2026
We often assume that once we get the session scheduled, the hard part is over. Just get everyone in the room with some sticky notes, and the collaboration will flow. But what happens when the most senior person in the organization treats your workshop like performance...