#34: Accelerating Flow & Harmonizing Technical Excellence and Team Collaboration

Hello DDDers,

it's time for this year's Summer Edition meetup!
Just before we hit the beach for some relaxing time off, we'll wrap up the season with a double presentation & giveaway bonanza!

We have some tickets (physical and online) for the amazing Build Stuff conference, as well as an extra 20% discount for any type of ticket.

Some lucky ones will also get a ticket for the Better Ways conference that has a strong DDD flavor this year.

After the sessions we will socialize and discuss summer plans while enjoying pizza and beers, kindly offered by our hosts MORO Tech.

Talks

Accelerating flow in socio-technical systems by Faye and Valadis

Feeling like your team is constantly stuck? Let's explore together how we can achieve fast flow in socio-technical systems with DDD & Modern Management practices. We will break free based on powerful principles, and methodologies that will crush common roadblocks.

Harmonizing Technical Excellence and Team Collaboration by Dionysis and Kostas

Striking a harmonious balance between technical excellence and human collaboration is the cornerstone of success. It is not just about implementing robust architectures or intricate design patterns. We will present a modular architectural paradigm where cross-cutting concerns are elegantly decoupled from core business logic and seamlessly managed across multiple teams working on a shared codebase, employing a combination of layered and vertical slices architecture.

We have used this approach to empower teams to iteratively enhance or replace implementations of cross-cutting concerns without disrupting the core application, all while stream-aligned teams focused on delivering business value within their own vertical slices. We will also demonstrate the alignment mechanism we used, so that collaboration, maintainability and cognitive load are not mere afterthoughts but integral components of the development process.

Speakers

Faye is a MSc BackEnd Engineer, whose heart was stolen by Agile. With years of experience in the Software Industry in leading teams and executives towards achieving their full potential. As an Agile Coach, her motto is “Software projects are People projects too” and she strongly believes that by fostering a creative and supporting culture, we can achieve astonishing results.

Valadis is a team lead trying to demystify the logistics domain. He enjoys domain driven design and tries to share the love by co-organizing Domain Driven Design Greece, engaging with the community and facilitating knowledge crunching workshops.

Dionysis is a Principal Engineer at a leading online gaming company, working on near real time bonusing systems with a focus on availability, performance and scalability. He has over a decade of experience as a software developer and DevOps engineer across a diverse range of industries, including SaaS services, production printing, military, online gaming, and retail.

Kostas is a pragmatic software engineer with over 20 years of academic and professional experience, currently holding a Principal Engineer role at a leading online gaming company. He has a proven track record in empathetically leading engineering teams building complex sociotechnical systems, leveraging DDD, Team Topologies, Wardley Maps, Systems Thinking and Agile. He helps run Better Ways, Devoxx Athens and DDD Greece.

Sponsors

MORO TECH is a tech-enabled data-powered consulting company providing business transformation solutions. The company blends data with strategies that deliver long-term business impact to accelerate the evolution of organizations. MORO TECH is a proud member of the MORO GLOBAL Group of companies with a presence in Belgium, Greece, Cyprus, and Japan.

Build Stuff invites software developers, team leads, and CTOs to its 2024 Software Development Conference. The conference will be held November 13 - 15, 2024, in Vilnius, Radisson Blu Lithuania, and online. It will cover everything you need to know about software development and technologies, with more than 100 breakout sessions as well as insightful and practical keynotes, workshops, and hands-on labs.

Better Ways (ex Agile Summit) will take place on September 27 at the Athens Conservatoire. It is a community driven event, powered and driven by the Agile Greece community. We help our community explore new ways of working, get inspired by the best international speakers, share their stories, and get connected with professionals from a variety of industries.