[August Event] Two Talks: Michael Plöd and Yevgen Nebesov

Team Topologies and Context Maps, Michael Plöd
Team Topologies and Context Maps are two interesting approaches to visualize sociotechnical architectures. However using each method on its own you will not be able to capture a truly holistic view of the system as a whole but you can use both in combination and this is what this talk is about.

This talk will introduce a Systems Thinking perspective on those two approaches and explain how both can be leveraged in combination to get a deep dive on many interactions in a system of teams and software. Those interactions include:
- team relationships
- team dependencies
- propagation of domain models
- governance related communication
- provisioning of APIs / services

However we will also look at the components of the system with Team Topologies being team centric and Context Maps being bounded context centric.

I will finally explain how you can use both methods to visualize alignments between domains, bounded contexts and teams.

This talk assumes that you have a basic understanding of strategic Domain Driven Design (esp. Bounded Contexts and Context Maps)

Michael Plöd
Michael works as a Fellow for INNOQ in Germany. He has over 15 years of practical consulting experience in software development and architecture. His main areas of interest are currently Domain-driven Design, Microservices and in general Software Architectures. Michael is a regular speaker at national and international conferences.

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Socio-Technical Engineering, Yevgen Nebesov
Socio-technical systems, such as software projects, are systems. We can apply common approaches of Systems Engineering to them: eliciting requirements, making designs, and troubleshooting. We can reuse the vast body of knowledge from Systems Engineering in other domains and reinterpret it for the domain of socio-technical systems. Let's see where this journey leads us...

Yevgen Nebesov
Yevgen Nebesov is an independent consultant for Systems Architecture. Born into an 🇮🇱 family in 🇺🇦, he now lives in the small city of Bruchsal, 🇩🇪, and Basel, 🇨🇭. His main interest is in the relationship between social and technical structures in software projects. He writes about this and other topics on his blog: https://www.complexitynavigator.rocks/blog