Do we need "software architecture?" Some thoughts that might help you in our busy software development world 🧵 A software system has to be extended and maintained, especially when it is successful. Simon Wardley has an excellent term for this: "evolution." He further says, "Everything evolves through supply and demand competition." But what does that mean?

Working with old software systems and coming up with ideas about what to do with them is a nice challenge. Here are 17 actions you can think about when you’re trying to move your software system into a (sometimes better) future. 🧵1/ 🙈Ignore! A simple yet powerful "action" is to go along with what you have. Maybe your system is not so bad at all and just does the job good enough. These circumstances might be a reason for doing nothing at all. 2/