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Towards Architecture Topologies for Sustainable...

Towards Architecture Topologies for Sustainable Fast Flow of Change

ℹ️ Talk at Craft-Conf 2023.

In this talk, I will discuss several ideas around a concept I am calling "Architecture Topologies" (https://esilva.net/architecture-topologies). The focus is developing thinking models and practices for organizations to improve their learning, design, and decision-making approaches and structures.

I will explain how architecture topologies can help organizations achieve a more sustainable, fast flow of change. We will explore essential dimensions organizations must consider to understand and improve their architecture topologies. Additionally, I will share examples of how these changes can be implemented and contribute to responding better to dynamic environments.

It's important to note that such changes will take time to happen. Still, I will share experiences demonstrating how applying Architecture Topologies can create better conditions for organizations to adapt to changing circumstances. My goal with this concept is to encourage people to embrace the idea that learning, design, and decision-making approaches will and should evolve over time.

Eduardo da Silva

May 19, 2023
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  1. Towards Architecture Organization Topologies for Sustainable Fast Flow of Change

    Eduardo da Silva, PhD (esilva.net | @emgsilva | [email protected]) Craft-Conf 2023, 19/05/2023
  2. Sustainable Fast Flow of Change ↳quickly & sustainably respond to

    needs from our environment 2 Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash 2
  3. 4 stretching social systems & creating complex processes => increasingly

    messier social and technical systems… Inspired by: Reflections: Sociotechnical Systems Design and Organization Change
  4. 5 Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash Outcome: continuously “fight”

    against the environment (external & internal)
  5. 🏢 These old org structures & Operating models limit the

    dynamics & velocity that modern orgs need 6 Photo by Cole Patrick on Unsplash 6
  6. ◌ Acknowledge that orgs are “Open System” - continuously affected

    by their environment 8 Photo by Ronaldo de Oliveira on Unsplash 8
  7. 9 💡Creating org cultures & structures that nurture sustainable learning,

    designing and decision-making Photo by Ronaldo de Oliveira on Unsplash 9
  8. 🎯 Sustainable Fast Flow of Change Operating Models 11 Sociotechnical

    Systems Evolution & Architecture, Eduardo da Silva
  9. TL;DR: approaches to architecture in teams & organization will take

    different forms & change in time (to allow for sustainable flow of change in the org). Embracing that is key to understand and improve them more explicitly. 12 Architecture Topologies & Architecture as Enabling Team, Eduardo da Silva
  10. A model for Architecture Evolution 14 *Would you like architects

    with your architecture? | images credits: Gregor Hohpe (Stefan Toth)
  11. 16

  12. 17 Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash ❓What about Architecture

    (learning, design and decision-making) across teams and the organization?
  13. 18 Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash 🕸 org is

    a network of teams and scopes. Looking at “team scope” architecture in isolation is not enough!
  14. “A system is more than the sum of its parts…

    It loses its essential properties when it is taken apart…“ Russell Ackoff 19 On Systems Thinking, Russell Ackoff
  15. Example: Product-centric Organization Scopes • Team scope is just one

    scope, a sub-system in a Product scope • Product Group scope tends to be a way to scale related product (scopes) 21 Product Taxonomy, Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, Jason Zubrick, Pat Birkeland, Mik Kersten, Alan Nance, and Anders Wallgren
  16. 22 Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash 🎯 enable architecture

    across all the org “Scopes” so it can achieve its purpose & goals and respond to its environment
  17. 23 Photo by Ronaldo de Oliveira on Unsplash 23 Key

    dimension of Architecture Topologies: “Scopes”
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  20. 29 Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash Popular Trends AOTs

    : Multi-team Enabling Architect & Team Architects
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  23. 37 37 Inspired on: Reinventing Organizations book, by Frederic Laloux

    ⚠Team can decide to not take the advice (but they MUST seek it) Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally, Andrew Harmel-Law
  24. 39 “What worries you about the Advice Process?” Credits: DDD

    EU 2022 Keynote, Andrew Harmel-Law, Diana Montalion, Mike Rozinsky, Gayathri Thiyagarajan and Dan Young
  25. 40 “How confident are you in the advice process?” Credits:

    DDD EU 2022 Keynote, Andrew Harmel-Law, Diana Montalion, Mike Rozinsky, Gayathri Thiyagarajan and Dan Young
  26. 41 “An idea to make us more confident in this

    process” Credits: DDD EU 2022 Keynote, Andrew Harmel-Law, Diana Montalion, Mike Rozinsky, Gayathri Thiyagarajan and Dan Young
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  29. 🧭 What Next for you? • Understand where you are

    • Is that enough for having a sustainable flow of change & cope with your environment? ◦ If not, what are the key aspects to change? • How to make sure these questions are being asked continuously - and you are acting on them? 45
  30. Thank you! Eduardo da Silva, PhD Independent consultant - Sustainable

    Fast Flow of Change # @emgsilva | esilva.net | [email protected] 󰗔 Architecture Topologies: emgsilva.net/architecture-topologies 💡 “companion article” of this talk coming soon on esilva.net 46
  31. 📚 References • Architecture Organization Topologies, Eduardo da Silva •

    Architecture Topologies & Architecture as Enabling Team, Eduardo da Silva • Would you like architects with your architecture?, Gregor Hohpe • Less is More with Minimalist Architecture, Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer • Team Topologies, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais • Sociotechnical Systems Evolution & Architecture, Eduardo da Silva • On Systems Thinking, Russell Ackoff (analysis by Eduardo da Silva) • Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally, Andrew Harmel-Law • Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux • Advice Process Playbook, Equal Experts Consulting • Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim 47