Software And Systems Architecture, more or less
Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame
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“soft skills” are “power-with” skills!
When trust leaves, and fear walks the hallways:
“It quietly shapes culture. It’s become acutely apparent in meetings where the leader asks, “Any thoughts?” but lacks the skills to invite real dialogue. The result? Either a few people speak and that is taken as the group’s consensus, or silence, which is mistaken for agreement. Over time, psychological safety erodes, until only the safest, shallowest, and superficial ideas”
Returning to this diagram, because it has explanatory usefulness.
Organizational design, for larger orgs, has this integration and co-ordination aspect. The first question it raises (for me), has to do with what (if anything) are we bringing together into a larger system (system, or system of systems, like an aircraft, or part of an ecology of systems, like integrating part of the supply network, etc.)? And what org capabilities are we bringing together to do that?
old drawing (colloquial use of the term)
but…
now we have code agents and genai to … add more faster? or rewrite .. rewrite.. re…
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And if you can’t get to the in-person events, or can, but can add (steeply discounted early bird!) this workshop to your year, you’ll be in wonderful company, and its an **adventure** that courses through the varied terrains of system design!! :)
DDD Europe is beautifully designed and curated (take a look at the schedule, and watch talks from past years, to build antici-pa-tion!), in a gorgeous city full of history, right at the train station in Antwerp, Belgium.
These are the years of building community, and this is a unique conference focusing on the practices of system design and modeling (and Domain Driven Design in particular). Highly recommended!
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So if you’re in Europe (or going to be), there’s a ticket lottery (for the open space days), which (i think) means apply *and* tell everyone, and be thrilled for everyone who gets to go :)