When the team has decided on modules first, and when deployment options start out as simple as possible, that approach puts them on solid ground to make decisions based on empirical information at the most responsible time.

Many have hijacked #agile and moved it far away from its origins, or simply travel in naivety. Usage should be far simpler. Working in #agile should boil down to these four things: collaborate, deliver, reflect, and improve

So you can’t go out and ask people, you know, what the next big thing is. There’s a great quote by Henry Ford, right? He said, “If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster horse.’” —Steve Jobs

Early on, it is best to choose a deployment option that supports fast experimentation, implementation, and delivery. This specifically points to using a Monolithic architecture in the early stages, because trying to solve distributed computing problems before the business problems are understood is an act of futility.

Even so, problems will occur when trying to apply Bounded Contexts with distributed computing before the teams have a good reason to, or when trying to understand the strategic goals and solve business problems using single-process modularity first. Such a bias will likely lead to over-engineered technical approaches, putting too much emphasis on t

Domain-driven points out that a business drives results through investments in knowledge acquisition within and beyond its current sphere of influence and activity. The business drives its own advancement and growth through steady improvements in its technology-based products. This book continually asserts that it is learning through experimentatio

Assertion: Those who want to build good software that innovates must get this communication–learning–innovation pathway right before trying anything else.

Conway’s Law doesn’t leave anyone guessing about how to make organizational communication structures work for the greater good. As the conclusion of Conway’s paper states: We have found a criterion for the structuring of design organizations: a design effort should be organized according to the need for communication.

Imitation is not a strategy. Differentiation is.