My experience during DDD Europe 2020
First blog of the year. And I decided to blog about my experience during DDD Europe 2020. Is there anything better? 🙂
10
Feb
2020
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13
Dec
2019
Towards Autonomously aligned teams with Domain-Driven Design and EventStorming
We have been involved in several transformations over the years, from DevOps to Digital to Agile. These transformations typically focus on transitioning people into near-autonomous teams of no more than eight people who will work in an agile manner. Every company we have worked for asks the same questions at these transformations: How do we...
26
Nov
2019
ABN AMRO: Building High-Performance IT Organizations
Recently ABN AMRO embraced their DevOps journey, recognizing 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.
The ABN AMRO landscape is challenging: from its industry, one of the most regulated; its technology,...
05
Nov
2019
EventStorming: Deliberate, Collaborative Learning Between Multiple Disciplines
Creating multiple models for the same problem is one of the more important lessons that domain-driven design teaches you. It’s a lot cheaper to quickly iterate over them and throw away less-useful prototypes before you even start coding. However, creating multiple models can be hard. When you begin gaining insight from your domain, you may...
08
Oct
2019
A DevOps journey: why the sociotechnical architecture is important
In recent years, we observed some DevOps transformations across the globe. Like any transformation, there are uncertainty and pain from it, given the teams and people are asked to change their values, principles and practices.
One of the aspects of a DevOps transformation is the impacts on the culture of the organisation, mainly on the social...
02
Oct
2019
From EventSotrming to CoDDDing
To really understand what our users need so that we can build the right thing, we want to have a first-hand experience of 'real-life stories' before we model and create our software. To quote Alberto Brandolini "it is not the domain expert's knowledge that goes into production, it is the developer's assumption of that knowledge...
25
Sep
2019
DevOps Transformation
Under the banner of the Apollo program, ABN AMRO teams are working on their transformation to DevOps. In this session you will be given practical tools on how to make the DevOps transformation a success (on an individual and team level).Date: 25 September 2019
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Website: https://www.cooperatievgz.nl/cooperatie-vgz/over-ons/agile-event-smarter-together
11
Sep
2019
Improving design and code quality with Property-based testing
A suite of traditional unit tests will only be as strong as the possible arguments or parameters tested against your code. Quoting Romeu Moura: If you take a String as an argument, then the works of Shakespeare in Japanese & Korean are ONE valid input. Obviously, this can be achieved with parameterized testing. However, this...
09
Sep
2019
My EventStorming learning: use visual anchors before the discovery of Bounded Contexts
EventStorming is a visual collaboration technique, invented by Alberto Brandolini. This post will not go into the details of EventStorming, and you can find useful resources on the web. Instead, I will share learning from the many sessions that I facilitated!
02
Sep
2019
Augment your knowledge during software modelling sessions: Decision Log
The most important learning during my career is that the act of creating software is a team effort. We can be a one-person team, but there is someone else involved; at least someone to use it.