Domain-Driven Design Europe 2021 – February
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The software industry has too many crafters and not enough drafters.
We are still bound up in the romantic image of the renowned crafter in their shoppe, creating beautiful artifacts for their customer who is in awe of the magnificent handiwork. Even after all these years, we still believe, somehow, that the job is ultimately about writing code. Our self-images still center around our ability to write code that is elegant, the envy of our peers.
However, we should know better by know! We should know that the crux of software development is not coding but communication and collaborative modelling, and we need more people who are good at it. We have enough coders, and they're good enough coders. What we lack, what we need more of, are people who can act as catalysts for analysis and decision-making.
To be more effective at solving business problems using software, we need people who are skilled at externalising mental models, so that they can be inspected, elaborated, compared, evaluated, chosen, rejected. We need someone who can make the implicit explicit and the intangible tangible. In short, we need drafters.
Einar W. Høst is a software developer at NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster. He enjoys domain modelling, API design and computer programming. He thinks that programs should be written for people to read and also for machines to laugh at.
