Software Architecture for Agile Enterprises

How Organization, Processes and Humans Can Evolve Together

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1. Software Architecture for Agile Enterprises Digitale Leute Summit 2019 Stefan Tilkov, @stilkov
 stefan.tilkov@innoq.com Image by Michael Gaida from Pixabay
2. www.innoq.com OFFICES Monheim Berlin Offenbach Munich Hamburg Zurich FACTS ~150 employees Privately owned Vendor-independent SERVICES Strategy & technology consulting Digital business models Software architecture & development Digital platforms & infrastructures Knowledge transfer, coaching & trainings CLIENTS Finance Telecommunications Logistics E-commerce Fortune 500 SMBs Startups
3. Modularization Autonomy End-to-end responsibility
4. Modularization Autonomy End-to-end responsibility
5. @stilkov Awesome Shop CMS Archive General Ledger Print Shop HR
6. @stilkov Awesome Shop CMS Archive General Ledger Print Shop HR Context
7. @stilkov Awesome Shop CMS Archive General Ledger Print Shop HR Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search
8. @stilkov Awesome Shop CMS Archive General Ledger Print Shop HR Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search Domain Architecture
9. @stilkov Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search
10. @stilkov
11. @stilkov Macro Architecture
12. @stilkov Ruby on Rails MySQL Java Spring Boot OSS Product COTS Java Spring Boot NodeJS ElasticSearch
13. @stilkov Ruby on Rails MySQL Java Spring Boot OSS Product COTS Java Spring Boot NodeJS ElasticSearch Micro Architecture
14. @stilkov Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search
15. @stilkov Coming up with the “right” system boundaries is an architecture activity that must be done first
16. @stilkov Managing dependencies is the most important ongoing architecture task
17. @stilkov You cannot decide to not have an architecture; if you don’t actively create it, be prepared to deal with the one that emerges
18. number of
 developers strength of 
 decoupling methods modules components μservices systems
19. From a layered system … System Logic Data UI Module Module Module
20. … to a system of systems System System System Logic Data UI Logic Data UI Logic Data UI
21. Pattern: Evolutionary Architecture @stilkov
22. Modularization Autonomy End-to-end responsibility
23. @stilkov Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search
24. @stilkov Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search
25. @stilkov Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search
26. @stilkov Invoicing Accounting Auth Catalog Checkout & Order Search Team Architecture?
27. @stilkov Conway’s Law: Organization → Architecture “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”
 – M.E. Conway
28. @stilkov If your goal is to support autonomous teams, architecture is an essential ingredient
29. @stilkov Size is the #1 enemy of agility. Keep your systems as small as you can.
30. @stilkov Extremely loose coupling requires very few rules, but they need to be enforced strictly
31. Pattern: Regulated Market @stilkov
32. Modularization Autonomy End-to-end responsibility
33. @stilkov Pattern: Autonomous Cells Stakeholder Stakeholder Stakeholder Biz Dev Ops Biz Dev Ops Biz Dev Ops
34. @stilkov Pattern: Autonomous Cells Stakeholder Stakeholder Stakeholder Biz Dev Ops Biz Dev Ops Biz Dev Ops
35. @stilkov Not every person has to become a full-stack developer, but every team should be a full-stack team
36. Recommendations
37. @stilkov 1. Time to market requires supporting architecture
38. 2. Establish autonomous teams as key ingredient
39. @stilkov 3. Create evolvable structures
40. www.innoq.com innoQ Deutschland GmbH Krischerstr. 100 40789 Monheim am Rhein Germany +49 2173 3366-0 Ohlauer Str. 43 10999 Berlin Germany +49 2173 3366-0 Ludwigstr. 180E 63067 Offenbach Germany +49 2173 3366-0 Kreuzstr. 16 80331 München Germany +49 2173 3366-0 innoQ Schweiz GmbH Gewerbestr. 11 CH-6330 Cham Switzerland +41 41 743 0116 Thank you! Stefan Tilkov @stilkov
 stefan.tilkov@innoq.com
 +49 170 471 2625