Good architects don’t chase perfect diagrams — they make smart calls with incomplete info, balancing today’s constraints with tomorrow’s goals and the team they have. Over my 20+ years working in ...

In today's fast-paced digital world, companies spend countless dollars on their portfolio of technology projects, which have several possible architectural solutions for building systems. These ...

Like when we go food shopping, how our many choices are presented to us helps determine what we end up choosing.Getty Images You might not know it, but when you gave your partner some choices for ...

Teams can make any decision after seeking advice from affected parties and documenting it in an ADR. Use context maps to assign clear ownership of system areas to specific teams. Create architectural ...

In my last post, I presented an overview of choice architecture and argued there may be a misalignment between the desires of the choice architect and those of the decision-maker. Given that choice ...