Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions
Creating high-quality software is challenging due to a focus on solutions over understanding organizational context. Developers need to engage with stakeholders across contexts. However, stakeholder communication can lead to misunderstandings and conflicts, disrupting knowledge sharing. This often results in autocratic decisions by architects. Achieving sustainable and design decisions, it's more effective to employ visual techniques, improving collaboration with stakeholders.
This talk explores collaborative modeling, a technique for analyzing complex decisions with all stakeholders. Inclusive sessions and skills like observing, listening, neutrality, and empathy are key. The goal is for teams to understand stakeholder needs, guiding software architecture through collaborative design.
Target Audience: Technical leaders, decision makers, software engineers, architects
Prerequisites: None
Level: Advanced
Kenny Baas-Schwegler believes in collaborative software design where ‘every voice shapes the software’. Leveraging a domain-driven design approach with Team Topologies, he facilitates clearer communication between stakeholders and software creators by collaborative modelling and deep democracy, decoding complexities, resolving conflicts and ensuring software remains agile to business demands.
In his roles as an independent software consultant, tech lead, and software architect, he catalyses organisations and teams towards designing and building sustainable and resilient software architectures.
Gien Verschatse is an experienced consultant and software engineer that specialises in domain modelling and software architecture. She's fluent in both object-oriented and functional programming, mostly in .NET. As a Domain-Driven Design practitioner, she always looks to bridge the gaps between experts, users, and engineers.
As a side interest, she's researching the science of decision-making strategies, to help teams improve how they make technical and organisational decisions. She shares her knowledge by speaking and teaching at international conferences.
And when she is not doing all that, you'll find her on the sofa, reading a book and sipping coffee.
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