The Responsible Designer Archive

2024 8 Posts

• Problem Frame Patterns 20 December 2024   2 minutes read
• Agile Quality Patterns 6 December 2024   2 minutes read
• Exactly?! 14 November 2024   3 minutes read
• Rigor? 12 November 2024   3 minutes read
• Discovering Our Software Umwelt 1 November 2024   4 minutes read
• Live your patterns! Life after PLoP 2024 21 October 2024   3 minutes read
• Getting it together... 20 October 2024   2 minutes read
• Critical Software Redesign: Creating the Environment for Large Scale Change 9 January 2024   1 minute read

2023 4 Posts

• Surfacing Worldviews in Design 3 July 2023   5 minutes read
• Getting out of your ruts 4 May 2023   5 minutes read
• Our Heuristics are Shaped Through Experience 2 May 2023   10 minutes read
• Testing, Testing...our Heuristics 19 April 2023   8 minutes read

2022 1 Posts

• Critically Engaging With Models 20 September 2022   38 minutes read

2021 7 Posts

• 2021 Year End Review 30 December 2021   2 minutes read
• Models and Metaphors 21 December 2021   15 minutes read
• Too Much Salt? 17 December 2021   6 minutes read
• Design and Reality 13 September 2021   9 minutes read
• Is it Noise or Euphony? 26 August 2021   7 minutes read
• Noisy Decisions 18 August 2021   4 minutes read
• Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts 14 June 2021   7 minutes read

2020 1 Posts

• Design (Un)Certainty and Decision Trees 7 August 2020   6 minutes read

2019 6 Posts

• Reconciling New Design Approaches with What You Already Know 7 May 2019   4 minutes read
• What we say versus what we do 25 April 2019   4 minutes read
• Nothing ever goes exactly by the book 19 April 2019   2 minutes read
• Writing, Remembering, and Sharing Design Heuristics 13 April 2019   5 minutes read
• What do typical design heuristics look like? 4 April 2019   3 minutes read
• Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics Toolkit 21 March 2019   4 minutes read

2016 4 Posts

• What’s going on here? 23 June 2016   6 minutes read
• Being Agile About Documenting and Communicating Architecture 9 June 2016   4 minutes read
• It's Not That Simple: The Interplay Between Fast and Slow Thinking 10 May 2016   2 minutes read
• On Thinking 26 April 2016   4 minutes read

2015 8 Posts

• Digging In 9 September 2015   4 minutes read
• Early Performance Testing at Agile 2015 15 August 2015   3 minutes read
• Shift Left: Testing Earlier in Development 18 June 2015   3 minutes read
• Future Commitment 16 June 2015   3 minutes read
• Mob Programming: The Unruly Experience 5 June 2015   2 minutes read
• What does karaoke have to do with being agile? 3 June 2015   2 minutes read
• Life in the Mob 12 May 2015   2 minutes read
• Can Nudging Help Us Make Better Choices? 10 January 2015   6 minutes read

2014 8 Posts

• Making New Behaviors Stick 16 December 2014   4 minutes read
• What good is knowing if it’s not half the battle? 12 December 2014   3 minutes read
• Beware of Dogma. No. Be aware of dogma 18 October 2014   4 minutes read
• Why Process Matters 17 October 2014   5 minutes read
• When in Rome... 27 June 2014   5 minutes read
• Making Strong, Lively Centers 9 April 2014   5 minutes read
• What Makes for Lively Centers? 26 March 2014   3 minutes read
• Discovering Lively Centers 20 March 2014   4 minutes read

2013 6 Posts

• Can't I Just Be Reasonable? 18 September 2013   2 minutes read
• Distinguishing between testing and checking 20 August 2013   5 minutes read
• Architecture at Agile 2013 13 August 2013   4 minutes read
• Architecture Patterns for the Rest of Us 10 April 2013   1 minute read
• Why Domain Modeling? 27 February 2013   4 minutes read
• Domain-Driven Design Applied 27 February 2013   1 minute read

2012 4 Posts

• Thanks to Joe and Jason...this blog is live again 12 December 2012   4 minutes read
• Evangelizing New (Software Architecture) Ideas and Practices 30 May 2012   3 minutes read
• How far should you look ahead? 17 March 2012   3 minutes read
• Agile Architecture Myth #5: Never Look Ahead 12 March 2012   3 minutes read

2011 12 Posts

• What is Pragmatic Testing All About? 23 September 2011   2 minutes read
• An Architect's Dilemna: Should I Rework or Exploit Legacy Architecture? 31 August 2011   2 minutes read
• Agile Architecture Myths #4 Because you are agile you can change your system fast! 26 August 2011   2 minutes read
• Re-thinking Thinking and Planning 18 August 2011   1 minute read
• Who Defines (or Redefines) Landing Zone Criteria? 17 August 2011   2 minutes read
• Landing Zone Targets: Precision, Specificity, and Wiggle Room 5 August 2011   3 minutes read
• Agile Landing Zones 29 July 2011   3 minutes read
• Introducing Landing Zones 21 July 2011   5 minutes read
• Software Architecture Stewardship 18 July 2011   2 minutes read
• Agile Architecture Myths #3 Good Architecture Emerges 12 May 2011   2 minutes read
• “Software Decision Making Under Stress" 2 February 2011   4 minutes read
• Agile Architecture Myths #2 Architecture Decisions Should Be Made At the Last Responsible Moment 18 January 2011   3 minutes read

2010 4 Posts

• Agile Architecture Myths #1 Simple Design is Always Better 29 December 2010   2 minutes read
• Slicing and Dicing Complex Projects... 27 July 2010   2 minutes read
• This blog has moved 13 April 2010   1 minute read
• Las Vegas....gambling on agile? 13 April 2010   1 minute read

2009 6 Posts

• Draw a Tree 26 October 2009   2 minutes read
• Design For Test 13 August 2009   1 minute read
• The Value of Design Documentation 15 June 2009   1 minute read
• Sustainable Design 8 June 2009   2 minutes read
• Open Spaces aren’t for everyone 2 March 2009   2 minutes read
• What Drives Design? 28 January 2009   1 minute read

2008 8 Posts

• Three in a Row 3 November 2008   3 minutes read
• Software Design and Development is Fun???! 18 September 2008   2 minutes read
• Design Hygiene 20 August 2008   1 minute read
• Junk faxes, print cartridges and canceling-oh my! 19 August 2008   3 minutes read
• Round the world in 28 days 15 June 2008   2 minutes read
• Lessons Learned from Architecture Reviews 20 April 2008   1 minute read
• Agile Open Northwest 2008 19 February 2008   1 minute read
• A Conversation with Dan and Allen 19 February 2008   1 minute read

2007 12 Posts

• Challenges When Communicating Designs 2 November 2007   3 minutes read
• Deconstructing Frankenstein 16 October 2007   3 minutes read
• Notes from my Japan Book Tour 17 September 2007   1 minute read
• Giving Design Advice 28 June 2007   2 minutes read
• Nuances 17 May 2007   2 minutes read
• It's really Wong Design.... 19 April 2007   1 minute read
• Wrong Design?! 18 April 2007   2 minutes read
• Agile Apologies 12 April 2007   2 minutes read
• Working--share your experience 20 February 2007   1 minute read
• Agile Open Northwest was for real 9 February 2007   3 minutes read
• Martin Fowler is no Kent Beck 7 February 2007   1 minute read
• Agile Open Northwest 17 January 2007   1 minute read

2006 14 Posts

• Barely good enough doesn’t cut it 29 September 2006   5 minutes read
• ATM Activation Update 29 September 2006   1 minute read
• Really, we're just trying to help 28 August 2006   3 minutes read
• But Joe says.... 9 August 2006   2 minutes read
• Translating Object Design 12 July 2006   3 minutes read
• Pay by the job, or pay as you go? 10 July 2006   4 minutes read
• Bicycles, bicycles... 15 June 2006   5 minutes read
• Workarounds vs workthroughs 19 April 2006   4 minutes read
• Can you really estimate complexity with use cases? 18 April 2006   3 minutes read
• Just Enough Structured Analysis 23 February 2006   1 minute read
• Agile Podcasts 23 February 2006   1 minute read
• False Dichotomies and Forced Divisions 10 February 2006   2 minutes read
• Pattern drift 30 January 2006   5 minutes read
• Alan Shalloway’s Hat Trick 12 January 2006   4 minutes read

2005 24 Posts

• John Vlissides 29 November 2005   1 minute read
• Exceptional exceptions 28 November 2005   5 minutes read
• OOPSLA, Creativity, and Practice 1 November 2005   5 minutes read
• Musings of an OOPSLA elder 24 October 2005   2 minutes read
• Paremetric Diversions Revisited 14 October 2005   2 minutes read
• Parametric polymorphic--or driving behavior with data 13 October 2005   2 minutes read
• Fitting problem framing into everything else you do 11 October 2005   4 minutes read
• Loaded words 10 October 2005   2 minutes read
• It’s official...specs are “bad” 6 October 2005   3 minutes read
• It’s not OK..or is it? 4 October 2005   3 minutes read
• Little things add up 5 September 2005   4 minutes read
• Exactly what do you mean? 29 July 2005   3 minutes read
• Framing and Questioning 15 July 2005   2 minutes read
• The World’s Smallest Software Development Quiz 5 July 2005   2 minutes read
• Comparing Design Notes over Coffee 30 June 2005   3 minutes read
• Why Objects? 14 June 2005   2 minutes read
• Don’t Look for Grisgris 13 June 2005   3 minutes read
• The Cost of Inertia 8 June 2005   3 minutes read
• Timely events in Use Cases 1 June 2005   2 minutes read
• Rock, Paper, Scissors--oh Sh#$%! 31 May 2005   3 minutes read
• Whole Systems Thinking and Pesky Details 11 May 2005   4 minutes read
• Good enough domain models 2 May 2005   2 minutes read
• Lava Flows, Swiss Army Knives, and Boat Anchors for the rest of us 13 April 2005   2 minutes read
• Problem Frames and an Eager Designer 12 April 2005   2 minutes read

2004 2 Posts

• Speculative Design 21 December 2004   1 minute read
• Notes from a Responsible Designer 20 December 2004   1 minute read