Microservices and the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre

This talk explores how organizational structure affects software architecture in microservices systems. It offers practical guidance on identifying business capabilities and organizing teams around them.

Syllabus

Introduction
Hypothesis
Twix
Open Source
Outline
Information Theory
Microservices
Value Stream Maps
Queues
Dont Keynes
Failure
Efficiency
What is your capability
Project thinking
Project teams
Antipatterns
Fanin
Distributed Monolith
A Nervous Breakdown
Pauline Cather
The Royal Free
The capabilities
Ooty
OODA Loop
Dr Michael Jacobs
Royal Free Hospital
Crossfunctional teams
Software existence proof
Functional silos
Comparing the market
Other Names
Stable Elements
XP Size
Thomas Allen
Inverse Conway maneuver
Conways signals
The last word
The email
Questions