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Paul Preiss By Paul Preiss I had a conversation recently with someone running a small restaurant chain. Three locations. A loyalty system that does not talk to her inventory, a scheduling app that emails PDFs, and a […]
By Paul Preiss I have been thinking about this one for a while. Mostly because I keep watching organizations spend enormous energy designing services and then wondering six months later why nothing changed. The business […]
By Paul Preiss A new term has arrived in the software development conversation: spec-driven development (SDD). Tools such as Kiro (AWS’s agentic IDE, released 2025), spec-kit (GitHub’s open-source CLI, released September 2024), and the Tess…
By Paul Preiss Let’s be honest: most organizations don’t really manage technical debt. They track it like a credit card balance that never gets paid down, piling up until the interest eats away at innovation, […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I’ve been in enough boardrooms, war rooms, and “innovation labs” to know the truth: architects often get rewarded for sounding right, not for actually getting anything real done. Frameworks […]
By Paul Preiss Every architecture you’ve ever touched has a life. It starts with a spark of an idea — maybe on a napkin, maybe in a three-day workshop — and it travels through strategy, […]
By Paul Preiss There are several tools that exist for architects to create/design, communicate and assess their architectures more effectively. The vast majority of the BTABoK is actually focused on what we call the Red […]
By Paul Preiss Many of you who read my blog will raise your hand when I ask who owns a home. But when I ask who really owns a home, most of those hands will […]
By Paul Preiss Architecturally significant decisions (ASDs) are “the stuff that matters” as Martin Fowler describes it. They describe the scope and boundaries of a decision that will have significant impact on the outcomes of […]
By Paul Preiss The Bounded Context Canvas fits into strategy and execution by helping to develop a shared understanding of a system and its business context we are building. This shared understanding is essential for […]
By Paul Preiss I was just finishing a talk on Living with Legacy, which covers a great number of concepts related to maintainability and viability in legacy systems at UberConf in Denver when all of […]