The clinical research team had spent weeks on the Event Model. The patient eligibility flow sprawled across multiple swimlanes—Clinical Research Coordinators entering data, an automated assessment engine, and Principal Investigators…
Imagine a team six months into an #EventModeling engagement. They’ve shipped two slices. Business stakeholders are happy. Developers are moving faster than before. But at the sprint review, an architect…
I recently attended Swiss Testing Day, and it was a truly worthwhile experience. It was a very well organized conference, with a great atmosphere, a strong sense of community, and…
Over the last months, I have written a lot about architecture before implementation. About the need for a shared language and a real blueprint. About reducing business processes to a…
Now that the manuscript of the 4th edition of The Ultimate Docker Container Book is finally complete and heading toward publication, I had a moment to reflect on the journey.…
After many months of writing, reviewing, editing, and refining, the 4th edition of The Ultimate Docker Container Book is finally reaching the finish line. Twenty chapters. Hundreds of pages. Dozens…
The setup In my last post, I explored why traditional specs, no matter how detailed, often don’t tell the full story. They leave too much room for interpretation. Several readers…
The illusion of clarity Ever sat in a sprint planning meeting, stared at a Jira epic with twelve user stories, nodded along, and then spent the next three weeks discovering…
Sometimes the most interesting posts are not the ones we write, but the questions they provoke. After my recent post “When Everything Shares the Same Centre, Everything Breaks Together”, someone…
As our policy system evolved, adding new features sometimes revealed dependencies elsewhere. Not because the team made mistakes. Because the system was designed so that processing a claim, issuing a…