by Organisers @virtualddd | May 12, 2026
We've all been in that meeting. Someone proposes a solution, someone else proposes a different one, and within minutes the room has split into camps. People stop listening and start waiting for their turn to argue. The discussion goes in circles, nobody feels...
by Organisers @virtualddd | Apr 28, 2026
We often assume that architects working on the same system share the same understanding of its structure. They're looking at the same code, working with the same components, attending the same meetings. But that assumption rarely holds up when you actually test...
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 | Jan 18, 2026
We often assume that once we get everyone in a room for a design workshop, the hard part is over. But what happens when the person signing off on the whole thing has a fundamentally different idea of the workshop's purpose than you do — and you only find out two...
by Organisers @virtualddd | Jan 6, 2026
When we kick off a major system modernization, we often fixate on the new tech stack and the shiny architecture. We map out microservices, choose cloud providers, and plan agile sprints. What we sometimes forget is that the "legacy" isn't just old code....
