Tech Consulting
AI doesn’t fix your bottlenecks. It amplifies them. DORA’s report on AI-assisted software development [1] confirmed that AI amplifies existing flow and exposes brittle processes and frictions. If your flow is good, AI makes it better. But if you have a lot of painful bottlenecks and frictions, AI makes the pain worse. If the underlying
InfoQ’s Software Architecture and Design Trends Report from April 2025 (and from 2024) highlighted “socio-technical architecture” in the early adopter phase of the technology adoption curve. “Designing systems around the people who build and maintain them is gaining adoption. Decentralized decision-making is emerging as a way to eliminate architects as bottlenecks.”
On InfoQ, I published an article (curated by Ben Linders) about “Adaptive, Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow: Wardley Maps, DDD, and Team Topologies”. It is a summary of how to leverage Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Topologies to build socio-technical systems that can easily adapt to change.