Design and Reality: Essays on Software Design

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Table of Contents About the Authors Mathias Verraes Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Design & Reality Domain language vs Ubiquitous Language Drilling Mud Scenarios A Breakthrough An Act of Creation Is it a better model? Design Creates New Realities Models & Metaphors Case Study Data Matching Domain Modelling Trust Trust as an Object Trust as a Process Business Involvement Trust as an Arithmetic The Evolution of the Model Discussion Good Metaphors Bad Metaphors Conclusion Critically Engaging with Models Models Are Worldviews Hierarchies and Networks Heuristics Models Distract The Spotify Model Agile Fluency Team Topologies Explicit Building Blocks When the Team Gets Too Big: a Case Study Contrasting Spotify and Team Topologies Comparing Models Yourself Bossy Models Getting Too Cosy with the Model Prescriptive, Descriptive, Aspirational Putting the Model to Work Conclusions Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts Deliberate Design Choices Twenty Commodities Traders Trade-offs Multiple Bounded Contexts in Ordinary IT Systems Conclusion