language provide a mechanism for shared understanding • The whole team gains a useful mental model for discussion & refinement, which leads to greater understanding of our business • Domain experts can contribute to software design, leading to a better representation of how the business works • Since pure models can be late bound to implementation details, they are easier to test, which leads to more correct implementations
Contracting with authors • Managing the book’s authorship and editorial process • Designing the book layout, including illustrations • Translating the book into other languages • Producing the physical print and/or electronic editions • Marketing the book • Selling the book to resellers and/or directly to consumers • Shipping a physical book to resellers and consumers
The structure of the organization contributes to the structure of the codebase • Architecture is not implementation details, like which database or framework you are using, instead it is the structure of your system