Everyone is talking about how AI will change the way we build software.

Almost nobody is talking about what was already broken before it arrived.

After recording and editing our new @virtualddd Stories on Facilitating Software Architecture & Design together with @roundcrisis and @ahl, one thing keeps coming back to us: the hardest part of software was never the technical decisions. It was what happened — or didn't happen — in the room where they were made.
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Parkinson called it the Law of Triviality. Groups naturally gravitate toward the problems that feel tangible and discussable — tools, frameworks, the latest model — while the genuinely complex stuff gets quietly avoided. The silence that isn't agreement. The passion that unintentionally closes conversations down. The resistance that has nothing to do with the technical decision on the table. The structure that either makes good decisions possible or makes them impossible.
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AI won't fix any of that. If anything, it makes it more urgent to understand.

The science behind this is well established — Edmondson's psychological safety research, Kahneman's System 1 / System 2, Argyris & Schön on organisational learning. It doesn't make the stories more academic. It makes them more recognisable. It explains why these situations keep repeating across our industry, with or without the latest tools.
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If you've ever walked out of a session where everyone agreed but nothing changed — these stories are for you.

Link to the stories as blog/vlog/podcast: https://virtualddd.com/facilitating-archdes/

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Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture & Design Archive - Virtual Domain-Driven Design

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