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A Skeptic’s Guide to Software Architecture Decisions
Skepticism is an architectural superpower that helps you to see through false assumptions before you have followed them too far before they have cost you too much time and created so much work that you’ll never completely recover.
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A Design Thinking Roadmap for Process Improvement and Organizational Change
How to understand an organization and the problem they want to improve, find solutions to problems, and provide feasible and high value recommendations that significantly transform how the organization operates for many years? This article shows how design thinking techniques have been used at NASA to drive organizational change and process improvement to create an impact on the organization.
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Cut Your Design Sprints in Half with These Key Tips
Cut your next design sprint in half with these tips at your side. With this approach, you’ll be able to turn 2.5 days into ~4 hours and the whole sprint to 2.5 days. Make collaborative design thinking easier, more fun, and exciting. With up-front preparation, a clear challenge to tackle, and attention to the clock, you can get to the essentials and turn innovative ideas into testable prototypes.
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Don’t Mix the Paint! Primitives and Composites in the World of Software
Because software is created from synthetic primitives (code, interfaces, requirements, etc.), engineers must accept that assumptions are often wrong, and adopt a mindset of challenging everything. Creating a system that continually tests the assumptions can help actualize the mindset.
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Q&A on the Book Righting Software
The book Righting Software by Juval Löwy provides a structured way to design a software system and the project to build it. Löwy proposes to use volatility-based decomposition to encapsulate changes inside the system’s building blocks, and explains how to design the project in order to provide decision makers with several viable options trading schedule, cost, and risk.
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Author Q&A on the Book The Innovation Revelation
David Lowe has written the book The Innovation Revelation: A story about satisfying customer needs. The book tells the fictional story of Charlie Blades who is a manager in the IT department of a retail company in London, faced with disruption from outside and old ways of working inside. The story explores how changes in workplace culture and practices can result in better outcomes.
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Designing Delivery Book Review and Interview
Book review and interview with Jeff Sussna, author of "Designing Delivery", on cybernetics, service exchange, customer-centric brands and a new definition of quality in a service-oriented world.