Architecture to Create Culture
At past CTO summits we have introduced MYOB's platform manifesto as well as the principles and values that drive technical decision making at MYOB. The aim of this talk is our next installment that talks about our journey towards creating a plan or an intentional architecture that will bring our vision to life. It is a talk about doing bottom up architecture at scale whilst still trying to keep design malleable and supple. It will demonstrate how coming up with an architecture can ultimately connect delivery teams with the client problem and allow them to solve real customer problems. Ultimately it will show how MYOB is tackling the problem of connecting the delivery teams to customer outcomes.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Introductions
Recap of MYOB's Platform Manifesto and its objectives
Recap of Values and Principles that attempted to achieve the objectives above
A statement of why that was not enough and why in a scaling engineering team interpretation is extremely dangerous
The actions we took to reduce interpretation and come up with a plan to implement our target architecture
Domain Modeling and Event Storming - application of the techniques and some surprising results
Technical Culture and how we went about reducing the amount of complexity
Lessons learnt from all of the above
Conclusion and Questions
Learning Outcome
Tips and Tricks on how to lead a technical change program
Creating a technical vision
Creating a culture that can actually achieve a vision
Practical discussion of Event Storming as a design technique
Mind maps of technical leadership consideration
And understanding of problems with rapidly scaling engineering teams
Target Audience
CTO, CEO, CIO, Head of Development, Head of Architecture, Technical Leader, Business Leaders, Transformation Leaders
Prerequisites for Attendees
An interest in creating customer focussed teams that truly understand the domain that they are working in. This enables them to reach a level of autonomy that they always seek and create real business value.
Links
The link to slides above is a high level talk this one will dive into a couple of technical angles of the talk above in depth.