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

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