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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Its the Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture and Design Anniversary! 🎂🎉

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 22/08/2026

Among the misunderstandings of how AI might change management: for every decision to be made there is a right decision and otherwise many wrong decisions; the criteria for what makes a decision right doesn't change over time; speed is optimal for all decisions

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This October I'll be running the Royal Parks Half Marathon in support of the Galilee Foundation. They have spent almost 20 years helping Palestinian students & preserving Palestinian culture through grassroots projects. 🏃‍➡️ 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ 🏃‍♂️‍➡️ Please sponsor me & share for reach www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

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Running the Royal Parks Half Marathon for the Galilee Foundation — and chasing a 20-year-old PB

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

we're just normal men

Woman (rose byrne I think?) leaning her head against a CGI rabbit

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Genuine question: when @garyseconomics.bsky.social says wealth inequality is a massive problem that’s metastasised, those with the power to act brand him as “populist” / ignore him. Yet when @thomaspiketty.bsky.social wrote over a decade ago that if inequality kept rising it could end violently.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So it looks like the dark money Cottrell scandal around Farage now involves people in Trump's circle too

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

TIL: “Butlerian Jihad” is something from the Dune universe and _not_ a struggle for the ideas of Judith Butler. 😭

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 23/06/2026

What if the best software architect isn't the person making all the decisions? 🤔 At @yowconf.bsky.social @andrewhl.bsky.social explores how to empower teams to make architectural decisions, reduce bottlenecks, and build better systems together. Watch: youtu.be/BQYIBKIzY5g?... #SoftwareArchitecture

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Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions • Andrew Harmel-Law • YOW! 2025

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 22/06/2026

In several of the stories people told @roundcrisis.com, @andrewhl.bsky.social and I on the @virtualddd.com Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture & Design, the thing that decided the outcome wasn't in the room. It sat upstream. >>>

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Last week I was on a podcast to talk about the future of software design, with @martinfowler.com, @settling-mud.bsky.social, and @andrewhl.bsky.social. It was a lively mix of AI optimism and concern, from practical aspects of design, to design philosophy. www.youtube.com/live/g5WfzxS...

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Loosely Coupled - Domain-Driven Design and more...

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This report on AI in tech sounds pretty interesting and confirms a lot of my experience/suspicions. TL;DR Developer productivity is marginally up, however, incidents and bugs and way up. Source: www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...

AI ENGINEERING REPORT 2026 | KEY FINDINGS
The Acceleration Whiplash
Telemetry data from 22,000 developers on the real-world impact of Al adoption.
OUTPUT IS UP...
Impacts of high Al adoption on engineering throughput
Epic
A sizable teature or capability, hundreds of tasks
+66.2%
Epics completed per developer
Task
Individual work item, may span multiple PRs
+33.7%
Task throughput per developer
Within this, tasks with an associated PR grew +210% per team. Code-specific work accelerated far faster than overall task volume.
Pull Request (PR)
Atomic unit of code change
+16.2%
PR merge rate per developer
Code Churn
Lines deleted to lines added per quarter, for merged code
+861%
Code deletion ratio
.•. WHILE PRODUCTION QUALITY IS DECLINING
Impacts of high Al adoption on production stability and quality
Incidents
A potential outage, security event, or customer-facing failure
+242.7%
Incidents per PR
+57.9%
Monthly incidents
• Bugs
A defect that causes software to fail or produce incorrect results
+54%
Bugs per developer
vs. +9% in the 2025 report
I +28.7%
Bugs per PR
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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

In software, we embrace anarchistic ways of organising more than we realise. I made this talk so that you can be more explicit in your adoption of these approaches, patterns, and most importantly, mindsets. Enjoy!

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 17/04/2026

Every software org is dysfunctional. Yes, yours too. 😉 Rebecca Parsons, Gregor Hohpe, @technologytulip.bsky.social & @andrewhl.bsky.social sat down and basically said it out loud. You shouldn’t aim to “fix” dysfunction, but to work with it instead. 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 17/04/2026

And I am going to do this again Craft Conf in june together with @evelynvankelle.bsky.social . Together with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social we were actually thinking about setting up some surveys to do this broader linked to our @virtualddd.com. Perhaps something you are interested in?

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 27/03/2026

Three different practitioners, three different stories, and underneath all of them the same move: get what's inside people's heads into a shared, tangible space. >>>

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 27/03/2026

What I find interesting — and this isn't visible on the site yet — is that these start to connect with heuristics from earlier episodes. Diana's complements one Paul Rayner shared: make implicit mental models explicit for objective collaboration. >>>

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 27/03/2026

Facilitation creates more lasting impact because people internalize what they discover through their own thinking. >>>

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 27/03/2026

In a recent episode, Diana Montalion shared one that sits alongside it: design experiences instead of explaining more. When people resist change, the instinct is to add more explanation. Rarely works. >>>

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 27/03/2026

Gien's full heuristic: surface value-based preferences before choosing technical solutions. Before evaluating options, dig into what's driving the strong preference. Is it fear of skills becoming outdated? Concern about maintainability? Making that visible changes the whole conversation. >>>

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 27/03/2026

What we try to do is different: invite practitioners to share a real story, then sit with them and extract the heuristics they've actually been working from. Something @rebeccawb.bsky.social introduced into our community. >>>

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 27/03/2026

recent episode of "Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture & Design" — a series I host with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social on Virtual DDD. Most architecture content gives you frameworks or opinions. >>>

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Adaptive Organizations meet Architecture @aomaconf.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"AI Augmentation for Technical Leaders" - Birgitta Boeckeler. Can AI help with architectural decisions? Watch:& Subscribe. youtu.be/qB7rsbDfmQg

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What AI augmentation means for technical leaders – Birgitta Boeckeler

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 16/03/2026

AI hype or real progress? @t-redactyl.bsky.social & @aiwithmichelle.com break it down on GOTO Unscripted 🎤 History, data, and hard-won pragmatism. www.youtube.com/watch?list=P...

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Beyond the Hype: What AI Actually Can (and Can't) Do • Jodie Burchell & Michelle Frost • GOTO 2026

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 16/03/2026

the hardest part of software was never the technical decisions. It was what happened — or didn't happen — in the room where they were made. >>>

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Bully No-Mates would be a better name.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

18% of the Fridays this year have been Friday the 13ths which honestly seems very on brand for 2026

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Adaptive Organizations meet Architecture @aomaconf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🎉 That's a wrap with the last sessions from @andrewhl.bsky.social @bitboss.bsky.social and @josvanschouten.bsky.social 2 days, 28+ sessions, countless connections. From AI to Team Topologies to real-world solutions. Thank you. See you next year

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

So much goodness in this conversation. I was highly privileged to be a part of it. 🎉🙏🏻🙇

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 04/03/2026

Are we asking that question in our own teams? Read, watch, or listen to Gien's full story: buff.ly/p65Td6F

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 04/03/2026

Across all these episodes, what we keep learning is: facilitating architecture means creating the conditions where the real reasons behind decisions can safely surface. That's harder than any technical problem. ....

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 04/03/2026

In our latest episode, @gienverschatse.com shares how a team chose event sourcing because one dominant voice pushed for it, while the real drivers (fear, identity, the need for something exciting) stayed completely invisible. Nobody had the skills or the role to facilitate a better conversation. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 04/03/2026

Teams that stay silent out of fear. Workshops where polite agreement masks real disagreement. Hierarchy that shuts down collaboration with a single gesture. Technology choices driven by career anxiety rather than analysis. These aren't edge cases. They show up in nearly every story we hear. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 04/03/2026

14 episodes into our Stories on Facilitating Software Architecture & Design series with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social, and one pattern keeps surfacing: the biggest threat to good architecture isn't a lack of technical knowledge. It's the human dynamics we don't address. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 04/03/2026

Think about the last architectural decision your team made. Was it actually decided through careful analysis? Or did the person who cared the most and spoke the loudest end up steering the outcome? ... #SoftwareArchitecture #FacilitatingArchitecture #CollaborativeSoftwareDesign #TechnicalLeadership

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When the Loudest Voice Architects Your Future

What happens when a team makes architectural decisions with no one to facilitate them? Gien Verschatse on burnout, bad choices, and lessons learned.

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Sweary Prof @swearyprof.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Some of the most beautiful hand-drawn diagrams i've ever seen. Turkish "Justice Gazette", 1920, artist: Cerîde-i Adliyye. Source [substack] casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus... #türkiye #infographics #stunning

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Can’t wait to be back in Berlin for @amaconf.bsky.social to talk about Anarchy and how it can help your architecture practice.

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The whole conversation transformed how I thought about software. Check it out.

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 19/02/2026

The new series @roundcrisis.com, @andrewhl.bsky.social and I are hosting is no different. Whether you prefer listening to a podcast, watching a video, or reading a blog - we've got you covered.

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 19/02/2026

With Virtual Domain-driven design, we've always strived for free knowledge sharing and accessiblility to anyone wanting to go deeper into systems and software design. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 19/02/2026

It's those lived experiences, that human connection you get from hearing someone's real story, that carries the most lasting value - in work and in life. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 19/02/2026

"Stories of Facilitating Software Architecture & Design" is built on a belief that feels especially relevant right now: in this age of AI, personal stories matter more than ever. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 10/02/2026

Last week we published the 12th episode, and we've already recorded 4 more. Hopefully these stories inspire and help people — in any role — on their path to changing the way we do architecture and design. Check out the series: buff.ly/ihPoVzk

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Stories on Facilitating Software Architecture & Design - Virtual Domain-Driven Design

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…

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 10/02/2026

Yes, editing takes work — but it also forces me to sit with the content, to really engage with it. We often forget that revisiting stories and ideas can help you re-engage with concepts you once knew but forgot, or give you a different perspective each time. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 10/02/2026

I've been on my own path with this for the past 10 years, having had the privilege to witness a team-first approach early in my career. And honestly, recording and editing each episode still gives me new insights and fresh enthusiasm to try things differently. ...

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 10/02/2026

And that's the hard part, isn't it? Knowing something needs to change and actually making that change are very different things. We believe stories are one of the best ways to bridge that gap. Hearing how others navigated their own path makes it feel less daunting and more achievable. ...

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