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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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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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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Making end-to-end testing obsolete with Domain-Driven Design

Effective test automation can help you speed up time to market and build quality in. However, when we start implementing test automation, we usually require multiple applications to accept a specific business feature, especially with a microservices architecture. These tests, which we call end-to-end tests, are a continuous delivery anti-pattern. In Continuous Delivery, we always...

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A DevOps Journey at ABN AMRO

Recently ABN AMRO embraced their DevOps journey, recognising that they need to continue in the path of continuous improvement. The market demands are high, and they continue to crunch knowledge and create new insights on top of the previous transformations.https://speakerdeck.com/joaoasrosa/a-devops-journey-at-abn-amro-at-devopsdays-online-2020Date: 9 July 2020 Location: Online Website: https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-amsterdam/welcome/

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DevOps Transformation at ABN AMRO Bank

Many organisations execute IT transformations to be more efficient and effective. However, the context differs between organisations, and there is no blueprint to copy IT transformations across organisations. We need to listen to the signals from inside of the organisation, learn, and adapt. In this experience report, we detail our approach and learning for a...

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Introduction to the Domain-Driven Design tactical patterns with outside-in Test-Driven Development

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is becoming popular within the software engineering industry. However, we have other practices that can be used as well. How does everything fit together? During this webinar we will do a live coding session. We will walk you through an existing codebase, refactor it using outside-in Test-Driven Development (TDD) while applying DDD...

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