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Organizational design

Growing & Thriving in a Multi-model World • Alberto Brandolini • GOTO 2025

Growing & Thriving in a Multi-model World • Alberto Brandolini • GOTO 2025

Alberto Brandolini delivers a compelling talk on how to combat software model decay and avoid the "Big Ball of Mud" by strategically applying Domain-Driven Design principles, especially Bounded Contexts. He emphasizes the critical role of visual thinking, structured architectural discussions, and organizational habits in maintaining clean, evolvable systems, particularly when scaling across teams and international markets. The talk highlights the need for continuous design effort, disciplined decision-making, and proactive identification of model boundaries to build resilient software in complex socio-technical landscapes.

Building Software That Survives • Michael Nygard & Charles Humble

Building Software That Survives • Michael Nygard & Charles Humble

Michael Nygard, author of 'Release It!' and Chief Architect at Nubank, explores the complexities of technical leadership at scale. He discusses the nuanced relationship between centralization and autonomy, the practical implications of Conway's Law on software and communication structures, and how well-defined architectural boundaries can reduce the need for constant organizational alignment. Drawing on his experiences at Sabre and Nubank, Nygard provides insights into building resilient systems and effective, autonomous teams.

Building Software That Survives • Michael Nygard & Charles Humble • GOTO 2025

Building Software That Survives • Michael Nygard & Charles Humble • GOTO 2025

Michael Nygard, author of 'Release It!', discusses his experiences at Sabre and Nubank, offering deep insights into balancing autonomy and centralization, the practical implications of Conway's Law, and how architectural boundaries can reduce organizational friction and the need for constant alignment.

How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma

How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma

Asha Sharma, CVP of Product for Microsoft's AI Platform, shares insights from working with over 15,000 companies building AI. She discusses the shift from "product as artifact" to "product as organism," the rise of post-training as the new competitive moat, and how agents are transforming organizational structures from hierarchies ("org charts") into task-based networks ("work charts").

Scale, Flow & Microservices • James Lewis • YOW! 2019

Scale, Flow & Microservices • James Lewis • YOW! 2019

Drawing on research from complexity science, this presentation explores why organizations slow down as they grow and how architectural and organizational patterns, like those in microservices and at Amazon, can create superlinear scaling. It explains that by fostering networked structures over rigid hierarchies, companies can mimic the innovative and resilient properties of cities.