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Clear thinking on complex change.

No thought-leadership for its own sake. Just practical lessons drawn from complex technology transformation programmes in financial services, the public sector and beyond.

Featured · Architecture

How your org chart secretly shapes your systems.

Conway’s Law explains why your systems end up mirroring the org chart, and what to do about it.

The long read

Conway’s Law, and how to design against it

From the energy-sector example to the reverse-Conway manoeuvre: structure and architecture are two sides of one decision.

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Delivery

Agile delivery that scales: the Double Diamond

Scaling agile is not about doing more at once. Separate discovery from development and the rest follows.

3 min read · Delivery

Strategy

What a solution architect actually does

A hard title to explain. The honest version, drawn from digital transformation in construction.

3 min read · Strategy

Architecture

The art of systems architecting, revisited

A book review written twenty years ago, and how well Maier and Rechtin’s ideas have aged.

3 min read · Architecture

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