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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 16/01/2026

New blog post! Covering tools for groups like the Architecture Advice Process, Team Topologies and Event Storming. This is part 3 of a series on making architectural decisions Questions, feedback, etc most welcome www.roundcrisis.com/2026/01/15/m...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 03/11/2025

"Everyone wants to be on the top right corner" @trond.hjorteland.com doing an amazing talk at @virtualddd.com Live now www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B7A...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 10/10/2025

The wait is almost over. BEACON is on this Monday 🎯 Small event. Morning talks. Afternoon unconference. ✨ No sponsors ✨ Months of planning. 3 days to go. 📍 GridAKL, Auckland | Oct 13 | 8:30am More info and tix www.beaconconf.com

Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 05/10/2025

Bytesize Architecture Sessions mentioned in @infoq.com I like how at towards the end of the article I'm quoted quoting @dianamontalion.com on her definition of knowledge Thanks Daniel Bryant and Rafiq Gemmail www.infoq.com/news/2025/09... Video referenced: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJd...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 18/09/2025

Great writeup on "The Three Kinds of Organizational Power" shared by Anja Kunkel (thanks) as we discussed Decision KP Maps. jacobian.org/2021/mar/15/... Reminded me of Anthony Marter's ProductTank Auckland panel. We share so much across roles - wonder if we collaborate efficiently enough?

Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 01/09/2025

That is pretty much where the word comes from? pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/p... what is it about it that you don't like / agree with?

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 20/08/2025

@annemariecharrett.com delivered an amazing talk last night. She talked about what is quality in what context amongst many other things, what a great take! Video now available @virtualddd.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hk-...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 29/07/2025

Discovering Clarity Through Personal Practice a post describing my experience doing impact mapping solo key takeaways: iteration over days FTW and focusing on goals and personas is great www.roundcrisis.com/2025/07/22/i... Have you tried impact mapping?

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 14/07/2025

This is why we say "it depends" so much... more great takeaways from the experience of a company using the Architecture Advice Process with ADRs and AAF From: martinfowler.com/articles/xap...

Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 09/07/2025

At yesterday's @virtualddd.com Book Club we discussed how technical teams need to be not just aligned with others but also with the overall organisation vision and goals also CFRs Feeling like you missed out? (you did 😁 ) but fear not -> ti.to/book-club-vi... When: 5th August 7pm NZ

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 07/07/2025

"The four means of agreement, arranged to compare their relative directiveness and specificity" From Facilitating Software Architecture by @andrewhl.bsky.social Want to learn more about it? Join us at @virtualddd.com online book club WHEN: Tuesday 8th July at 7pm NZ time ti.to/book-club-vi...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 03/07/2025

Yesterday's event @virtualddd.com presented by Krisztina Hirth was so impact-full ☺️ she said something like: "If you are not convinced (of the impact), you will deliver terrible work" Video youtu.be/XG985T2mMMQ

With Impact mapping ... get feedback faster

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 24/06/2025

Yesterday at Auckland @dataengbytes.bsky.social I enjoyed Kim's take on her use of agentic ai: great at scafolding the initial project and telling her "You're right" www.meetup.com/auckland-dat...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 11/06/2025

Before at Web Directions code leaders, we've got a great overview of the possible future of the software development life cycle by Sarah Taraporewalla. She went over the recent past and current state and imagined what things could be. I massively enjoyed the subsequent panel

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 11/06/2025

I thoroughly enjoyed Prakriti Mateti talk about her team and her journey doing a re-write of a system. I keep thinking about is how important was the messaging and storytelling both internally and externally during the re-write. In the picture, when to rewrite ( totally watch it if you can)

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 11/06/2025

At Web Directions Code Leaders, I just saw Maia Miller do a talk about Accessibility, with a big A. She walked us through accessible 😅 some of these changes are and how, as people in leadership, we can power up our teams to have more accessible systems.

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 04/06/2025

Great to have working definitions for these concepts: Influence and Affability. Also helps understand how power flows From Charisma in everyday life: Conceptualization and validation of the General Charisma Inventory www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 14/05/2025

Awesome talk by Joakim Sundén yesterday at @virtualddd.com Why is hard to innovate in orgs that look like the first picture

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 28/04/2025

Today is Cloud Native Summit in Auckland I've already learned a bunch of stuff and met some amazing people at the hallway track after the workshop Say hi if you are there #cloudnativeANZ

Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 25/04/2025

I'm preparing some slides for the workshop on Tuesday and I think this quote from @cyetain.com caries the message on systems of software an people so well Thanks @chrissimon.au for pointing me to it! 📑https://www.ergonautic.ly/blog/sociotechnical_alignment/

A screenshot of a slide with a quote from Jabe Bloom that reads: "Organisations don’t just run on technology—they emerge from the interactions between systems of people and technologies navigating uncertainty. "

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 20/04/2025

People building a system need to share a lot of knowledge. They need to know what to build today, and imagine the near future. How can you improve that practise? I'm sharing my take on my Cloud Native Summit keynote on 29th April in Auckland www.cloudnativesummit.co/The-delibera...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 15/04/2025

I loved it so much I screenshot-ed it also the visuals drive it home!!!

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 15/04/2025

read top -> right and then left It seems like we have been chunking cognitive load with a lot of other things that are not. Organisational issues get assigned to (the individuals) masked as attentional problems (I see the link with Team topologies here)

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 15/04/2025

Learning to understand our vast array of objects, artefacts is something we cope with from an early age. At this point Cat also mentioned that as a programmer you do many multiple cognitive as part of the jobs, tasks that are more than attention control, memory, etc #virtualDDD #drCatHicks

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 07/04/2025

Join us on the 8th of April at 7pm NZ time to continue with Part 2 of Chapter 8 ti.to/book-club-vi...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 10/03/2025

The architecture advice forum (In chapter 8 of the book ) you get a description of what is it like for each of the different type of participants. Which makes a lot of sense! Want to know more? Join us tomorrow 7pm NZ time for book club ti.to/book-club-vi...

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 20/02/2025

The book club at @virtualddd.com was something else! We used a @tldraw.com board for the first time We talked about the practices of Software Architecture and perhaps extended the metaphor for practices we use a little bit too much.

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 17/02/2025

See a problem, fix it.... see another problem fix ... individual examples of this make sense but the end result can be ossifying Paraphrasing Ch 7 of Facilitating Software Architecture. Want to discuss? Join us at the book club tomorrow at 7pm New Zealand time buff.ly/3Qo1WSK

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 08/02/2025

The book club was a good few days ago and we discussed this, this is the visual metaphor that keeps coming back to make me think about this process (from Facilitating Software Architecture, chapter 7)

Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 02/02/2025

Much looking forward to: * The book club for Facilitating Software Architecture on Tuesday the 4th of Feb at 7pm New Zealand time! Come and join us buff.ly/4hIgPuO * Team topologies workshop, announced fresh out of the oven ✨ 5th March 7pm NZ time with @lukeMcManus buff.ly/4gnjbOu

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 13/01/2025

@emilybache.com video on METRICS Your Developer BOSS Cares About has some gems 💎💎

Productivity remains a pretty elusive because it cannot be reduced a single dimension metric - Nicole Forgsgren

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 07/01/2025

A sunrise walk to my morning swim cc @thomasvitale.com not a sunset but I thought you might like it 😀

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 06/01/2025

Morning walk before starting the day 😅

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This feels very 🎤 drop - Rúnar talking about Unison at #yow24

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Suz went over all the details on how this all works , which was super fun to learn AND I love this take away of learning because it's awesome - at #yow24

Didn't expect to learn about the sleeping habits of ants but here we are... trying to find good sources of randomness with Suz at #yow24

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 12/12/2024

This talk made me remember how important playful experimentation is for learning, thanks Theodora #yow24

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Astronauts need to fundamentally understand how these procedures work, not just repeat - Theodora at #yow24

Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 12/12/2024

Games are an unintended consequence of play - Theodora Bock at #yow24... totally agree

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Playing hockey in a wheelchair... no better way to understand someone that to live their life for a little. Empathy mapping can help with this #yow24

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Systems can help aboriginal communities manage their funds in a accessible way AND the system needs to save them a significant percent of those funds, an example is this solution created by Milesh's company #yow24

Milesh recomending to be nuanced when doing modernisation and digitalisation projects. Some digitalisation is inclusive and some exclusive. #yow24