A Natural Selection Driven
Architecture
William Martínez Pomares
President IASA Costa Rican Chapter
A Quick Concept Explanation
The Shadow Architecture
Domain Nurturing and Metrics
What is Next?
New Sales
Module
Stock:
Modified to
support
new Sales
Model
Reporting:
Replaced to
support
Web
System Domains
Variations Combinations
Selection
*Based on the Shadow Organization concept by Ralph Stacy, 1997
• Business value not delivered
• Better ways of providing it
Unfulfilled Business Needs
• Wrong Domain/Metaphor
• Built in Solution Space
• Defective Communication Channel
Forced Domain Anti-pattern
• Non participating stakeholders
• Operational TI, non-tactic, non-strategic
Invisibilized Talent
• Additional cost in control and support
• May be competing solutions
Unofficial Architecture
• Need of TI learning
• Unnatural solutions
• Non-expert’s work
Dysfunctional Domain
• Analyze and Measure
• I.E Capturing stakeholders needs and natural process.
Taking advantage?
• Speed, Precision, Trust
• Modeling, Validation, Coherence
Development
• Impedance mismatch, no Ownership
• Workarounds, Conflict, Barrier, even Sarbanes-Oxley!
Adoption
• Unnatural Patches, No Flexibility
• Lack of Governance!
Evolution
Awareness
Identification
Language Standardization
Continuous Evaluation
(Governance integration)
Language Simplification
Technical Discussion
Semantic Dissonance
Bottom Up Development
Service as RPC
Wrong Domain
Identification
• Keep track of information, process
• Keep an eye on symptoms
• Document and learn from shadows
Knowing
• Domain Nurturing
• Contextual Interviews for domain design and Variations
• Absorb, combine shadows. Under control, official.
• Make stakeholdrs part of it
Acting
• Put in place an Evaluation
The cycle
• Domain Nurturing
• Contextual Interviews for domain design and Variations
• Absorb, combine shadows. Under control, official.
• Make stakeholdrs part of it
Acting
December 6th – 7th, 2012 // Austin,
TX Training: Dec. 3rd – 5th, 2012
Certification: Dec. 7th – 9th, 2012
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