13 February 2025
‘Architecture’ is such a wide term that it can be difficult to nail down exactly what architects should focus on…
14 April 2024
Every organisation tends to organise technology decision making differently, but some of the problems associated with architecture can be remarkably consistent…
28 March 2024
Knowing what decisions to make and when to make them can be something of a fine art
3 February 2024
Despite growing excitement about the potential for AI-driven agents, there are a lot of problems to solve before we can build agent-based architectures on any scale…
8 January 2024
There is a spectrum of different styles of architecture governance, from the tightly structured and framework-driven, through to the deliberate absence of formal architecture.
12 December 2023
The demise of software engineers is one of those tired old tropes that refuses to die. Perhaps the programming revolution has already happened…?
13 November 2023
Evolutionary design and iterative development only get you so far - you still need some level of up-front thinking and forward planning.
15 July 2023
Most internal shared libraries are based on the fallacy that code sharing always makes development more efficient.
2 March 2023
Agile practices on their own are no guarantee of fast flow. You also need a planned architecture that enables team autonomy and supports rapid, iterative delivery.
14 November 2022
Internal developer platforms are supposed to be so compelling that engineering teams will flock to them, but are we givng teams any real choice?
3 August 2022
Writing a good unit test suite is hard. Many test suites don’t provide any meaningful benefits, merely serving as an unreliable and unloved extension of the main code base.
12 June 2022
Adopting inner source is more than just a matter of putting a project into GitHub and accepting pull requests.
17 May 2022
Larger organisations are beset with complexity that can’t be fully addressed by autonomous teams focusing on value. At least frameworks like SAFe recognise this and attempt to offer solutions based on experience.
6 February 2022
If we’re serious about empowering engineering teams to make decisions, then we should be embedding architectural skills rather than architects themselves.
3 August 2021
A lean approach suggests that features can be proven in quick prototypes before being implemented ‘properly’. Alas, things don’t always work out that way…