Author: karljeffery

The software industry is driven in 2016 by software vendors – whose objective is usually selling complex software for high prices, which tie the client down. How can we be sure of this? Because if we start with software from the customer’s perspective we come up with completely different answers to the ones we currently…

Pokemon, and games like it, can model millions of people and things in real time. Why can’t we have software like that for our organisations? Problems happen in organisations because of the complexity, ‘it’s not my job’, and because very few people can actually see the full complexity. Companies are divided up into small divisions,…

I heard a story yesterday of a colleague who took a day off work to take his fragile elderly mother for some surgery in a hospital by ambulance, only to find that the consultant scheduled to do the work did not turn up. He said it was a stressful wasteful day. Your first reaction may…

There was an interesting high profile news story over the weekend – Facebook removed a famous Vietnam war photo from a news story published by a mainstream Norwegian news organisation, which appeared on Facebook. The photograph included a naked child. Facebook, you see, does not allow naked children on its website. The Norwegian prime minister,…

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The hour long video of Eric Evans’ talk at his Jan 2016 Domain Driven Design conference in Brussels is well worth watching. Online here. One interesting point he makes is that software should be able to do some specific thing. That task is probably important and complex, otherwise you probably wouldn’t want software to do…

In the world of domain expert software, there is a lot of talk about models. Its a confusing idea. What exactly is a model in software? It may be a diagram on a white board. But beyond that, even people who think about it all the time struggle to express what it really is. It…

If you think most work can be automated, perhaps it might help to think about the last experience you had with your phone company, I am guessing that your phone line (like mine) loses either internet or phone capability every couple of years and you have an excrutiating experience with your phone company’s automated system…

Expert = someone who likes to develop understanding about how something works, the cause and effect, how to reach a goal Narcissist = someone who is obsessed about controlling a situation, who cares how other people think about him (or her), does not have any intrinsic ‘self’, so can only validate based on how other…

Theresa May, who is at the time of writing about to be appointed Prime Minister of the UK, does seem like an expert, someone who thinks deeply and tries to understand how something works. We don’t know her that well. But it was impressive that although it was clear yesterday that she would be prime…