Sociotechnical Systems Evolution & Architecture
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⭐️ Products | ✍🏻 Articles | 🎙️ Talks | 📻 Podcasts & Interviews | 📚 References📢 News - I now provide consulting services on these topics!
If you are looking for help on these topics, book free 30-min discovery video-call to discuss possible collaborations. You can also email me, and/or check my consulting and products pages for more details on how I may be able to help you.What is Sociotechnical Architecture?
Sociotechnical Architecture is about taking an holistic co-design approach to technical and organizational systems, given the inherent impact they have on each other.
In other words (from Nick Tune): When we are architecting a software system, we must consider the impact on the teams in the organization and vice-versa.
(inspired by Nick Tune's Sociotechnical
Systems Evolution loop)
⭐️ Products
- Sociotechnical Architecture Modernization Kickstarter Program - this is a multi-month program with several sessions to understand, orient and kickstart your architecture & teams modernization, followed by day-to-day enabling support to help you effectively execute the initial phases of a modernization initiative (together with your own teams and modernization enabling team).
- Sociotechnical Architecture Modernization Workshop - this is workshop provides a "collective experience" to learn, practice, and discuss thinking models, tools, and methods that allow unlocking and driving sustainable co-evolution of org and tech-based on customer and business value.
✍🏻 Articles
- Intro to Sociotechnical Systems Evolution & Architecture series
- Introduction to Sociotechnical Architecture: Why & What is it
- Introduction to Sociotechnical Architecture: Traits & Strategies
- Real-World Examples
- Evolving Tech-enabled Orgs Using Sociotechnical Architecture (DevOps Lisbon Meetup)
- Sociotechnical Architecture as Enabler of Product Thinking
- Architecture Topologies & Architecture as Enabling Team
- ProdTech Teams
- Automated Software Architecture Visualization & Emergent Understanding
- Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)
🎙️ Talks
- Intro to Sociotechnical Architecture: co-designing technical & organizational architecture to maximize impact, Spaces Summit 2020, May 2020
- Sociotechnical Architecture as Enabler of Product Thinking, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Europe, February 2021
- Scaling & Evolving Tech-enabled Orgs Using Sociotechnical Architecture & Systems Thinking, DevOps Lisbon Meetup, March 2021
- Sociotechnical Thinking and Architecture - Motivation and Traits, September 2022
- Architect(ure) as Enabler of Organization’s Sustainable Flow of Change, Kandddinsky 2022, October 2022
- Sustainable Learning, Designing and Decision-making, Keynote - Agile Tour Vienna 2023, September 2023
- Towards Architecture Topologies for Sustainable Fast Flow of Change, Keynote - Agile Meets Architecture 2023, October 2023
📻 Podcasts & Interviews
- Sociotechnical Architecture as a way to maximize impact, TechLab Podcast, September 2020
- Team Topologies - "a DSL for Organization Design and Evolution", TechLab Podcast, January 2021
- DevOps is Not Enough for Scaling and Evolving Tech-Driven Organizations, Interview with Manuel Pais, InfoQ, March 2021
- Emergent Platform and Evolution in SocioTechnical Systems, Platform Thinking Podcast, July 2023
- Arquitetura Sociotécnica, Tech Leadership Rocks Podcast (in Portuguese), July 2024
📚 References
- Key People & References on Sociotechnical Architecture (GitHub repo started and maintained by people working and interested on Sociotechnical Architecture)
- TLA_insights on Sociotechnical Architecture (my research and insights on key articles that touch Sociotechnical Architecture)