Group doing the exercise during NCrafts
17 May 2024
Workshops

Leveraging Team Topologies for software evolution – NCrafts

Have you ever faced roadblocks in software development stemming from disjointed team structures or interactions? You’re not alone. Misalignments between software and the domain, siloed teams focusing on discrete tasks, or processes dictating software architecture often culminate in rigid software not resonating with evolving requirements. Enter Team Topologies, a pattern language, and a set of principles...

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07 Mar 2024
Talks

Intentional Architecture

Our software craft is constantly changing. Technology evolves, and our skills and practices develop as well. How about the teams we are part of? And the organizations? The evolution at the team and organization level is slower but has the potential to be more disruptive. Our brain likes routine, and it is hardwired that way....

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05 Mar 2024
Podcast

Avoiding the Agile Bureaucracy with Rosa and Hjorteland

In today’s episode, we are joined by João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland, two organizational consultants with a unique point of view, who take us through the depth of Open Systems Theory, and what it means to be socio-technical practitioners, passionate about transitioning democratic organizations to fast-flowing operational models. With many years of experience in large and...

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25 May 2023
Talks

An enabling approach to an organisation transformation

Organisations attempt to transform their structure in many different ways. Usually, they resort to external help to move the needle forward. More often than one would like, externals impose the new organisation structure on people. Well, you can picture what happens next in the story. There are different approaches to organisation evolution (as opposed to transformation)....

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19 May 2023
Talks

Intentional Architecture – João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland (Small Talk)

Small Talk is a series of live-stream interactive events with our experts. This time we talk with João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland, authors of the brand-new Intentional Architecture in-person Workshop. What is Small Talk? It's an informal 30-minute chat on the area of expertise of our trainers, where you'll have a chance to interact with them, ask...

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11 May 2023
Podcast

Platform Thinking Podcast

Our next guest on the Platform Thinking Podcast is João Rosa, a strong advocate for of DDD and strategic design. João believes that embracing a new ways of operating can provide significant benefits in terms of delivering products and services that truly meet customers' needs. As an interim CTO and consultant, João has worked with numerous...

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20 Dec 2022
Thoughts

My observations on the effects of CAPEX and OPEX on organisational behaviour

During my career, I’ve been involved in different digital transformations, ranging from financial to telco institutions. Those digital transformations aim to evolve the operating model (or parts of it) and bring digital capabilities to the forefront. As part of it, new ways of working are implemented, which leads to new practices to manage capabilities. You might recognise those digital transformations by other names, such as Agile transformation, DevOps transformation, or cloud transformation.

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17 Nov 2022
Workshops

From EventStorming to CoDDDing

In this workshop, you will explore a domain and translate it to code by using Domain-Driven Design patterns. The workshop targets two groups: those starting to learn Domain-Driven Design and who want to practice their Domain-Driven Design knowledge. The workshop is structured based on the Model Exploration Whirlpool from Eric Evans: Explore a scenario - by...

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