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#systems-thinking
Turn the Sequence Diagram on Its Side
The people who can tell you a boundary is wrong were never going to read UML. Turn the sequence diagram on its side and they do not have to.
We Deleted the Wrong Half of Agile
Reviewability is something you design. Extreme Programming already knew how, and we made exactly the wrong half of it optional.
Design the Stopping Point
Target state is the easy half of a solution design. The hard half is the first step, because that is usually where the money runs out.
Adoption Is the Deliverable
The ugliest service in production beats the most elegant one nobody calls. So where exactly does an architect's job end?
A Feature Is Not a Service
The ticket said "saved filters". The real decisions were which service, whose identity, and how little to invent.