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EventStorming @eventstorming.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

📸 One of the rare moments when you actually sit during an #EventStorming Master Class. 😅 We’re going on tour with @ziobrando.bsky.social: 🛫 Copenhagen, Sept 29-30 @gotocon.com 🚆 Berlin, Oct 20-21 #KanDDDinsky 🚖 Milan, Dec 2-3 @avanscoperta.it 🎫 16 seats each www.eventstorming.com#workshops

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Now I’ll have a 50% probability to say it wrong for the rest of my life…

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I guess this calls for a pronunciation Kata. 😂

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

But if I had the power to influence bosses with a blog post, everybody would be making homemade pasta in the office daily. 🍝

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This topic became radioactive. And that’s one reason I am talking about it. It’s something we haven’t completely understood but that became impossible to discuss.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

FOR THE LAST TIME: I am not advocating Return To Office.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Still not what I am saying. And part of the problem, too. Productivity is about doing, and remote can be better in that. Honestly, I wouldn’t even start talking about remote if I hadn’t found something that wasn’t covered by the standard polarized bullshit.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I won’t bore you any more. 😁 Thanks for the feedback and for the rescue. Have a nice weekend!

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I still think remote is fooling us. It fooled me. The nastiest way is that it creates bubble with less visibility of the organization around us. Too easy to filter signals and to build a simpler bubble. And this is very hard to reverse.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Layoffs and threats for coming back to office are abuse. That’s clearly not the way. But if you built a safe and happy haven: 1. Good for you! There are happy places. 2. Part of my intention was to send a warning. Less observability can mean “surprise” layoffs.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Social media conversation are the worst case. But empathy doesn’t happen spontaneously in remote conversation. It becomes a deliberate effort in a limited brain energy scenario. This doesn’t happen for free.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🤗 feels better. Thanks. Let me say some things better. When I said “Empathy is not granted” I was referring also to a system problem. I think you wouldn’t have started this way in person, and wouldn’t have responded in a same way. One way or another we would have found a way. A smile or a smirk.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

😒 How can you say I am aggressive without reading it? How can you say I am doing it for money? I am not.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Yet - even in the happiest bubbles - there is a price to pay in terms of reduced visibility. Higher chances of blind spots. I don’t know what’s behind the blind spots in your organizations. But I know that reduced observabilty in both directions (employee <-> organization) is a risk.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I am sorry, but empathy is not granted. Especially when the conversation starts with a personal attack from an unknown Bluesky handle. 😒 Yet I am doing a deliberate effort to dig something useful out of it. I get that I touched a nerve, and that remote is working great for you. Happy to hear that.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Again: bubbles, you don’t see mine and are making (wrong) assumptions. And I don’t see yours. Which is making talking about the common space harder. I wouldn’t care about it if this wasn’t a core ingredient of the issue: “Remote work is making it harder to talk about remote work”

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I wish I found only one core problem. 😁 but this is clearly there.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s not you. It’s physiology. And bubbles too. One bubble is “having tasted what real collaboration feels like”. But other bubbles exists in the other direction. I am trying to get past the bubbles and see the cumulative effect of weak signals.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Which is not what I wrote. Implicitly confirming that 1) the lower quality of remote interactions can have negative consequences. 2) talking about this stuff rationally is hard.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

That’s great. I know there are some happy bubbles. One post is supposed to be about them. 😉

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Ouch. I thought I deleted it. The magic of cross-posting. 😳

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I finally started writing my thoughts in the current state of remote work. It’s messing up with our organization’s ability to evolve. In nasty ways. ziobrando.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

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Remote work is fooling you

...and making your organisation dumber

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Don’t shoot the messenger! 😂

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I don’t see Sourcesafe, or the evil Changeman! Or the vicious duo “Zip & Naming Convention” 😁

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Ian Cooper @icooper.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

A couple of folks on the thread have asked about environmental impact. It is not my area of expertise. I don't think that my goto person on environmental issues in software engineering, Anne Currie, is on BSky (see www.strategically.green/us. )

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

And maybe creating one more connection to "the need to convince somebody" instead of just grabbing a marker, and/or opening the IDE.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Now, the new ingredient is remote, slowly building structures and routines that are harder to break and good examples harder to follow. No impromptu modelling sessions in the hallway, or empty mornings in Google Calendar.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Yep, I saw a pendulum swing in the past years as well. 2005-2010 attempts to do DDD were smothered by bad planning. Agile was a more urgent matter, then. Later, some (few) companies created space for innovation, and interesting things could happen.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

… which makes the generation of “the ones that studied during the pandemic” very hard to reach. They grew up with the worst teacher-learner interaction ever. And very few examples of immersive learning.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

There’s a lot of little magic around when and how we can make the “Aha!” moment happen. But you can seed deeper this way.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

But I suspect we overestimate the impact of our talks. “Influencers” explaining [whatever] in a 5 minutes video can have a lot more outreach

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I guess “genuine curiosity” is the secret ingredient here. A lot of the pitfalls seem to match with the “My boss told me we must do DDD” starting point.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Not sure if a “We” exists here. It’s individuals talking about stuff that matters, in various places. Conferences need new blood, maybe the missing information is in articles and books. 😒

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

And it will continue to exist. It’s the Dreyfuss’ model, and it won’t disappear so easily.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I guess this can be “3rd gen DDD dysfunction” and I am still trying to decode it.

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Now, the abundance of resource is somehow creating a different type of cage: “conformity” to the DDD “prescription” is burdening teams with more steps and maps. But they’re just tools, not recipes. Still, newbies want recipes…

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Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

In the early years, #DDDesign was burdened by modelling hygiene rules and a presumed lack of guidance. The resulting perception was “DDD is just like OOP, but harder”. Code examples were a double edge sword: so many devs thought: “Ok, that’s what DDD is all about.” …often missing the point.

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