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@ruthmalan
Curious (with a focus on architecting for agility, integrity and sustainability). she/her @RuthMalan@mastodon.social
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Jun 19 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Architecture Decisions: ebook on decisions that impact system outcomes.

ruthmalan.com/Leadership/202… It’s also about other significant decisions, of course. But it’s a shame that this field work on technical decisions isn’t seen as a book on architecture decisions.
Apr 21, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
"Bringing people together to solve big problems."

"I want to argue with the word naturally" "without some intentionality, you will probably see friction, confusion and underperformance. Even with leadership we'll still see friction [etc], but help to keep those in check." ImageImage "when the system cannot cope with changes inside or outside, it eventually collapses"

"system in response must have some characteristics"

"Important that our responses are not only effective, but efficient."

"Can be in tension, but don't discard one for the other" Image
Apr 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Relating this
To this
Apr 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tomorrow! Opening with @eikonne‘s keynote on Adaptive Leadership, followed by openspace 🎉
If you haven’t participated in an OpenSpace: it’s really cool. The “agenda” is constructed together; in this case, at least, participants pitch ideas for sessions, and they are given slots (time and virtual room), and who shows up to the session are the right people, etc.
Apr 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
To be clear, this is clueless nonsense...
From wikipedia: "Follett's educational and work background would shape and influence her future theories and writings. One of her earliest career positions would see her working as a social worker in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston from 1900 to 1908."
Apr 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When I do fleets of tweets I mean something different :) When parts and their teams are too decoupled, we have “parts flying in formation, trying to be an airplane” … but our minds, in conversation (with each other, with “the code”, with diagrams and views), are integration devices (i know i know), making sense, making meaning, across
Aug 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A (software-intensive) system (so its design) changes the larger social and sociotechnical systems it interacts within (so its context). We need to take this co-learning (symmathesy) into account in design (of design). So design is non-linear; decisions interact. Non-linear (intro):
Co-evolve (p36)
Design, oughts, and ethics (p37)

Judgment calls and responsiveness (decisions):
Last responsible moment (p9)
Earliest responsible moment (p10)
Aug 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In “PowerPoint Is Evil:
Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely” (wired.com/2003/09/ppt2/), Tufte is railing against bullet points and (standard template) structure over content. This (QT) reminded me of Tufte’s catchy opening…

But I think the first question around **presenting** architecture needs to be who and when and how do we best serve them?
Jul 3, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
“Fowler’s definition is crisp: Software architecture is those decisions which are both important and hard to change.“

kylecordes.com/2015/fowler-so… Trying to understand if Fowler was the source being referenced here: ‘For many years, Software Architecture was described as the “parts that are hard to change later”’

May 25, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
“the way we pull services out of monoliths”

Oh. That would be.... that would be.... waiting for it....

But architecture is not just about breaking things down into parts.

It’s design. In dynamic existing contexts. Focused on systems — dynamic, evolving systems.

More than analysis. More than synthesis.

That it doesn’t compress into a simple definition isn’t the end.
Jan 17, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
A (software-intensive) system (so its design) changes the larger social and sociotechnical systems it interacts within (so its context). We need to take this co-learning (symmathesy) into account in design (of design). This insight isn't, by any means, new -- it was there in the work of Meir Lehman (see quote in notes on second image) and Christiane Floyd
Mar 16, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
“Systems Architecting: Creating & Building Complex Systems” by Eb Rechtin was *the* pioneering work that fomented our field
amazon.com/Systems-Archit… Another field-founding classic (1996 — our field is *young*): Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline
amazon.com/gp/aw/d/013182…
Mar 1, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Heuristics can be contextualized and organized different ways—design patterns being one (@rebeccawb). Here they are focused by activity, in this case structuring, organized by @Grady_Booch’s “fundamentals that remain fundamental” or SCARS
Feb 14, 2019 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
At that point where I wonder if it’s worth it ... to write (talking points and transitions on my slides)... to read...
ruthmalan.com/Journal/2019/2… Tic toc. It's coming along. At least we're past the point where @davegray makes a cameo appearance :-)
Aug 23, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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2. Jeff Bezos, Amazon letter to shareholders, 2015
Aug 4, 2018 • 18 tweets • 13 min read
@RuffyanMe Wellll, following the arc from architecture is design and Herbert Simon's Sciences of the Artificial, we might find ourselves arriving at the likes of @cyetain and @DanaBredemeyer (and moi), along with books like @eoinwoodz and @NickRozanski's amazon.com/Software-Syste… @RuffyanMe @cyetain @DanaBredemeyer @eoinwoodz @NickRozanski and many others, including those on @Grady_Booch's Handbook of Software Architecture site at handbookofsoftwarearchitecture.com/?page_id=30
Jul 12, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Software Architecture Workshop , Chicago/Schaumburg, November 12-15, 2018 Early enrollment discount (higher early enrollment numbers enables us to contract more favorably with the venue) bredemeyer.com/Workshops/arch… (way more than a) review of the workshop:
embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/7/2/…
Mar 17, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What is software architecture? Two roads diverged...
bredemeyer.com/whatis.htm Hopefully yields more to each reading. (That flywheel, for example. Structure, and dynamics.)