[Virtual] DDD-Lite: Independent Service Heuristics with Matthew Skelton

This event is co-hosted with Virtual DDD (https://virtualddd.com/)

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81504988822
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VbjIrnXoNgE

Abstract

When designing organizations for fast flow of change, we need to find effective boundaries between different streams of change. Techniques like Domain-Driven Design (DDD) are very powerful for this but can be quite involved and difficult to learn. A lightweight intermediate approach is to ask "could this thing be run as a cloud-hosted (SaaS) service or product?".

This session explores the Independent Service Heuristics, a kind of “DDD-Lite” approach based on some ideas in the book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. The Independent Service Heuristics help teams to find candidate services and domains for running as a separate value stream or separate service.

The Independent Service Heuristics have proven useful for various organizations improving flow. In this session, we would really welcome feedback and critique of the approach. Where might the approach not work? What pitfalls might there be? Are there questions or material missing?

See the Independent Service Heuristics on GitHub at https://github.com/TeamTopologies/Independent-Service-Heuristics - send a Pull Request! The material is Creative Commons CC BY-SA.

About the speaker

Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow (https://teamtopologies.com/book). Head of Consulting at Conflux (https://confluxdigital.net), he specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, e-commerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software. Recognised by TechBeacon in 2018 and 2019 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps (https://techbeacon.com/devops/devops-100-top-leaders-practitioners-experts-follow-0), Matthew curates the well-known DevOps topologies patterns at https://devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016, https://cdwithwindows.net/) and Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016, https://operabilitybook.com/). He is also the founder at Conflux Books (https://confluxbooks.com) which publishes books for technologists by technologists. Twitter: @matthewpskelton (https://twitter.com/matthewpskelton)