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  • Everyone Agreed on the Standard and Nobody Used It

    September 29, 2026 · 26 min

    We tend to assume that if the people who will live with an architecture standard help create it, adoption takes care of itself. Invite the teams, let them design the process, give everyone a voice, and the standards will be theirs. Wouter…

  • Nobody Asked Her to Organise a Community of Practice, So She Did It Anyway

    September 15, 2026 · 24 min

    Most organisations have a community of practice that nobody actually wants to attend. It sits in the calendar every two weeks, a handful of people talk, and the rest stay silent. Suzanne Lagerweij has a simple explanation for why: people…

  • Someone Went on Holiday and Handed Over a Laptop Full of Scripts

    September 1, 2026 · 44 min

    We spend a lot of design effort on how data gets into a system — the forms, the validation, the transactional database quietly recording everything in neat rows. We spend far less on how it comes back out. And when the person who needs a…

  • They Told Her She Needed Grey Hair to Run the Workshop

    August 18, 2026 · 36 min

    Most facilitation advice starts the moment people walk into the room. Prepare your flip charts. Sort the chairs into some reasonable configuration. But Katie Clark brought two stories that are deliberately not about what happens during a…

  • The Team Had Four Services. They Were Actually One

    August 4, 2026 · 27 min

    We tend to trust diagrams. Four boxes, four arrows, four services — that feels like shared understanding. But when Vanessa Formicola started asking basic questions about a team's architecture, the boxes came apart in her hands. What the…

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  • We Spent Three Months Talking and Got Nowhere Until Someone Picked Up a Marker

    July 21, 2026 · 27 min

    Most decisions in software teams don't fail because people disagreed. They fail because people thought they agreed — and nobody found out for weeks. You leave the meeting feeling good about where things landed, and three weeks later you're…

  • She Spent Years Watching Architects Lose Their Spark

    July 7, 2026 · 25 min

    There is a version of career progression that looks like success from the outside and feels like erosion from the inside: you get more senior, you sit in more meetings, you write less software, and eventually someone asks whether you'd…

  • Nobody Could Agree on Whether the Problem Was Technical a DDD Europe Special

    June 23, 2026 · 27 min

    There's a pattern that turns up in almost every struggling team: the problem gets named as technical, the technical fix gets applied, and nothing improves. The complaints come back louder, and the only thing that really changes is who gets…

  • They Knew the Answer Before They Understood the Problem

    June 9, 2026 · 24 min

    We like to think architecture starts with a problem. But often, by the time we're brought in, someone has already chosen the answer — and the real work becomes figuring out how to slow things down without making anyone feel foolish. That's…

  • We Spent Years Improving the Wrong Thing

    May 26, 2026 · 31 min

    We like to believe that if we do everything right — bring in proven methods, hire experienced people, build the feedback loops — then the system will eventually bend toward better. Marco Heimeshoff spent years inside a company doing…

  • Everyone Had an Opinion But Nobody Changed Their Mind

    May 12, 2026 · 29 min

    We've all been in that meeting. Someone proposes a solution, someone else proposes a different one, and within minutes the room has split into camps. People stop listening and start waiting for their turn to argue. Whatever decision comes…

  • Why Drawing the Same System Reveals Different Architectures

    April 28, 2026 · 23 min

    We often assume that architects working on the same system share the same understanding of its structure. They're looking at the same code, attending the same meetings — surely they see the same thing. But what happens when you actually…

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About the show

We’ve consistently observed a common pattern: regardless of the architectural approach—from traditional enterprise to more hands-on, emergent methods—teams face similar obstacles when building effective systems. The core challenge remains how to build software that truly works and enables a smooth flow of delivery. To address this, we’ve started a new series, Stories on Facilitating Software Design and Architecture. In these sessions, we focus on real-world experiences from our community, sharing practical stories about the alternative approaches that have delivered results. It’s about moving beyond the theoretical and into the practical, shared wisdom of what actually works.