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Vaughn Vernon is a software ecologist, architect, modeler, and optimizer of teams and individuals. Vaughn works with CTOs and other executive technologists, teams, and individual engineers, as a leading expert in Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven, and Reactive Architecture, championing simplicity in the face of complexity. He helps teams and organizations optimize to realize business-driven and reactive systems as they transform from sprawling legacy systems. Vaughn is the author of four best-selling books, and is the curator and editor of his Addison-Wesley Vaughn Vernon Signature Series.
Strategic design is the most broadly applicable of the Domain-Driven Design toolset, and its use is vital. Without a deep understanding of differentiating strategy driven by business knowledge among all stakeholders, software is nothing more than the interpretations of programmers. Their guesswork follows layers of previous requirements interpretations passed down the business hierarchy. Are guesswork and individual interpretations what businesses want? Without certain effort to engage with business leaders, even the most skilled software leaders are ill-suited to deliver true strategic results. Read more...