Join Matthew Skelton for a talk at the Domain-Driven Design London meetup group on Tuesday, May 12th.

DDD-Lite: Independent Service Heuristics

When designing organizations for fast flow of change, we need to find effective boundaries between different streams of change. Techniques like Domain-Driven Design (DDD) are very powerful for this but can be quite involved and difficult to learn. A lightweight intermediate approach is to ask "could this thing be run as a cloud-hosted (SaaS) service or product?".

This session explores the Independent Service Heuristics, a kind of “DDD-Lite” approach based on some ideas in the book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. The Independent Service Heuristics help teams to find candidate services and domains for running as a separate value stream or separate service.

The Independent Service Heuristics have proven useful for various organizations improving flow. In this session, we would really welcome feedback and critique of the approach. Where might the approach not work? What pitfalls might there be? Are there questions or material missing?

See the Independent Service Heuristics on GitHub at https://github.com/TeamTopologies/Independent-Service-Heuristics - send a Pull Request! The material is Creative Commons CC BY-SA.

This event is co-hosted with Virtual DDD.

Matthew Skelton - image credit: Jax DevOps - https://devops.jaxlondon.com/blog/devops-conference/gallery-jax-devops-2019/

About the speaker

The talk will be delivered by Matthew Skelton, co-author of the book Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux. Matthew created the well-known DevOps Topologies patterns in 2013 and now helps organizations around the world to assess, adapt, and evolve their organization structures and team interactions.