recent episode of "Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture & Design" — a series I host with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social on Virtual DDD. Most architecture content gives you frameworks or opinions.
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Architecture in small bites? 🤏
Can architecture actually be done in "small doses"?
@roundcrisis.com joins Avanscoperta as a trainer for her Collaborative Modelling with Bytesize Architecture Sessions and C4.
Early Bird Tickets alert: www.avanscoperta.it/en/training/...
Drowning teams in system documentation rarely works. @roundcrisis.com talk explored using bytesize sessions to share architecture insights efficiently. Watch or listen:
The #DDD Starter Modelling Process has a section about Discovery. In this post I describe how I use time-boxed, iterative workshops, Bytesize Sessions, to Discover the structural side of the systems.
Includes descriptions for smaller and bigger groups.
www.roundcrisis.com/2026/03/03/b...
14 episodes into our Stories on Facilitating Software Architecture & Design series with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social, and one pattern keeps surfacing: the biggest threat to good architecture isn't a lack of technical knowledge. It's the human dynamics we don't address.
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Infographic for Bytesize Architecture sessions describing the sections of it.
I've updated Bytesize Architecture Sessions to use "Convergence" instead of consensus.
Convergence is really our aim here, it's all about integrating and co-creating. Thanks @indu-alagarsamy.bsky.social for the great discussion that enabled this new insight! 🌟 🌟
Thoughts?
Infographic for Bytesize Architecture sessions describing the sections of it.
I've updated Bytesize Architecture Sessions to use "Convergence" instead of consensus.
Convergence is really our aim here, it's all about integrating and co-creating. Thanks @indu-alagarsamy.bsky.social for the great discussion that enabled this new insight! 🌟 🌟
Thoughts?
A map of the North Island of New Zealand with the route Jono Ridler is to follow. It tracks the coast on the east side from the start point in Waikuku Beach all the way down to Wellington
Inspiring: Superb effort by Jono Ridler swimming to stop bottom trawling.
So far 800+ km. He swam from the top of NZ North Island towards Wellington (Currently he's near Gisborne)
More information about the swim progress as well as the impetus behind it in the website www.swim4ocean.com
@roundcrisis.com, @andrewhl.bsky.social and I collect real stories from practitioners about what it actually looks like to move from autocratic decision making toward something more decentralised and facilitative - and where that journey gets complicated.
virtualddd.com/stories-on-f...
Did you know that you can listen to our new stories of facilitating software architecture & design series on your favourite podcasts. Check it out:
Apple Podcast: buff.ly/Xx3UNG8
Spotify: buff.ly/TFhS5ep
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Pocket Cast: buff.ly/0vprKnL
and many more...
How do you change the way architecture and design are done in your organisation?
End of last year, together with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social, we started a series called "Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture & Design." The idea is simple: let people share their stories.
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added it to Functional Programming in games repo github.com/Andrea/Funct...
Great to see monogame around 🎉
I guess also not as fun but... better than nothing.
Why not run a short one online, which would lower the organisation bar significantly?
Take it from there
I wonder... would there be any interest in some F# event / (un)conference in 2026?
I always wanted to do something similar to F# Creators Workshop (which @dsyme.bsky.social organised years ago in Cambridge) or Elm Camp (which has been for last couple of years)
#fsharp
Good example of "bad surprises"
📣 New Blog Post!
Fellow OSS authors! Drowning in hopelessly outdated code snippets and misleading docs?
I’ve been there. This post is about the idea that helped us recover — shared in case it's useful to someone else. 💜
purplekingdomgames.com/blog/2025/07...
#Scala
Create a model of your system, as a practice!
We are excited to announce the first edition of the Collaborative Modelling with Bytesize Architecture Sessions and C4, led by @roundcrisis.com, online on 22 - 24 and 26 June!
www.avanscoperta.it/en/training/...
Timelapse of an EventStorming session
New blog post! Covering tools for groups like the Architecture Advice Process, Team Topologies and Event Storming.
This is part 3 of a series on making architectural decisions
Questions, feedback, etc most welcome
www.roundcrisis.com/2026/01/15/m...
oh look, I'm in this picture! 😀
We added our Strategic DDD workshop for NZ/US timezones, with Andrea Magnorsky.
👉 Learn how to decompose large problem domains into cohesive, autonomous, domain-aligned bounded contexts and how to continue from there: buff.ly/wsWGc8P
Great summary for a very useful book
And...
"...you want to start with no, which can mean many things and frees people up to enter the negotiation. Preserving your counterpart’s autonomy by giving them permission to say no, calms them, allows them to feel they are in the driving seat"
"Prior to seeking agreement, do an accusation audit. What are all the things they might say about you as a reason to not agree to your proposal? Then you lead with them. “You may feel…"
If they are unacknowledged or denied they have power. But if you label them, calmly, it takes the sting out
Anna Shipman wrote a very useful summary and review of Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
www.annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/never-s...
Two spotlights:
Writing about tools for architecture decision making, to describe a tool in a paragraph or so it very hard.
How to make justice to what comes to hundreds if not thousands of hours of work that went into creating these facilitation tools
A path through trees with leaves all lining it, the trees are bright orange
an asphalt path through trees with white leaves
a path over a ridge on a hill, with orange and silver trees and silver shrubs
more infrared experimentation, near Briones Reservoir
Nice write up on service blueprints microservices.io/post/archite...
write up by @crichardson.bsky.social
the blueprints are from @indu-alagarsamy.bsky.social
Today during DDD training I was asked which companies use Domain Driven Design today
I know there are a few companies I'm helping, Do you know some list or some companies that are good current use cases?
This Thursday: On the same page: EventStorming for understanding processes and systems together hosted by@paulrayner.bsky.social and myself
At @adaconf.org
Be prepared for chaos, timelines, emergence a lot more (++ a lot of sticky notes 🟧)
more info www.trybooking.com/events/14391...