@gienverschatse.com
Consultant and trainer, specialized in design and architecture. Co-author of Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions. https://www.aardling.eu, https://www.gienverschatse.com, https://collaborative-software-design.com/
We don't run public workshops often—most of our training is in-house with companies. If you've been wanting to start with collaborative modelling but unsure how, this is your chance to learn by doing it.
Details: buff.ly/UHbDWhk
Strategic Domain Driven Design is a domain-focused, collaborative learning process. Come and collaborate with us to find out more about Strategic DDD: buff.ly/u2ViIdE. Andrea will teach in her office hours from New Zealand!
Take advantage of our Early Bird!
«It’s not just about design, it’s about people, systems, and the way we work together.»
This is what Claudia Cuadros recently wrote about the Collaborative Software Design book, written by Evelyn van Kelle, Kenny (Baas) Schwegler, Gien Verschatse.
📖 Have you already read it?
Together with my co-authors @evelynvankelle.bsky.social and @gienverschatse.com, we get questions about our book, which we turn into small advice columns written by our book's alter ego, Dear CoMo.
⏰ There is still time until the end of this week!
Here are some key tips to consider when crafting your Call for Papers (CFP) for DDD Europe: buff.ly/4gQjqmy
Next year, we’re going to Amsterdam!! 🇳🇱
The Collaborative Software Design Workshop with @kenny.weave-it.org and @gienverschatse.com will take place on June 16 - 17 in Amsterdam and registrations are now open! 🎆 www.avanscoperta.it/en/training/...
Trans vrouwen zijn geen bedreiging.
De echte dreiging is het feit dat mensen nog steeds zeggen dat geslacht volgens biologie binair is (spoiler biologie werkt niet met definities) om anderen te mogen uitsluiten in naam van de wetenschap ga u een eind schamen dames… (6/6)
Design heuristics help you design a loosely coupled architecture. Find out how to use heuristics as a guiding tool for designing your bounded contexts in this beginners-friendly training 👉 buff.ly/EHe7jyV
Take advantage of our Early Bird!
We will go more in-depth on how to facilitate collaborative software design, ensuring you can structure sessions that capture the necessary expertise regardless of rank or communication style.
buff.ly/K5xhJTK
Cover of the bool Domain-Driven Tranformation featuring an Atlas Moth
It has been quite an odyssey, but now it is finally here:
📣 📚 Domain-Driven Transformation: Modernize Legacy Systems and Mitigate Risk 📚 📣
In this book, Carola Lilienthal and I present our approach to transform architecturally eroded systems.
domain-driven-transformation.com
“Anarchy doesn’t mean you can’t organise, but it should be done voluntary, functional, temporal and small”
At @newcrafts.bsky.social watching @andrewhl.bsky.social talk about anarchy and how we can organise ourselves differently in our company instead of the hierarchy we have gotten so used to.
Only 20 days left until @newcrafts.bsky.social. I will be talking about all things decision. :-D At the end of my talk you will understand a decision better, have some extra vocabulary to use and you know how I applied decision-making to software design. I hope to see you there! ncrafts.io
Have you had enough of all the endless chit-chat about AI? Yeah. I hear you.
So I ain’t sayin’ nuffink other than, I’m running a two-day workshop in Amsterdam on November 17th and 18th, getting the most out of LLM-augmented coding tools and having FUN with it.
Let’s not talk about it. Let’s DO It.
⏰ Only 2 weeks left to submit a proposal for a workshop at DDD Europe 2026.
❗ Deadline for the workshops is: October 31, 2025.
👉 Send in your ideas for workshops now: buff.ly/RXoL9H8
Me and @javujavichi.bsky.social “together” on stage. My favourite moment of #gsas25 captured here. First time I got quoted in a talk, achievement unlocked. ❤️
⛔ LAST DAY! Regular Tier pricing vanishes TOMORROW (October 15th). Stop thinking, start clicking. Your future self will thank you.
🚀 buff.ly/Wbivw05
I am giving a talk and doing a workshop at #gsas25 (gsas.io) It is not too late to get your ticket! 13-15 October 2025 in Barcelona. Come find me :)
There's one thing you can do to improve the quality of your software that not many people would think of...
Improve your communication
Join me to improve your software with diagrams-as-code + AI on 30 Sep
20% off code
jacqui20
jcq.me/gotoc25
#software #softwareArchitecture #softwareDevelopment
Want to come to BEACON?
🧭 1 day event for technical leaders
🎤 Talks in the AM
🤝 An unconference in the PM
🌱 Theme: sustainable evolution — thoughtful, ongoing change in teams and systems
📆 13 Oct 2025
🗺️Auckland
The event will be catered and ticketed (price TBC)
+ info? forms.gle/KcFvGyESGbU8...
Listen to “System Thinking” on our @aardlingeu.bsky.social YouTube Channel: youtu.be/PQ7alnbdUp4 (Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.)
The way we think and the way we design our software systems isn't aligned. In order to make that alignment better, we need to understand our thinking, and the system we are in. In this episode, I spoke with @mentrix.bsky.social on decisions, belief systems versus truth, and non-linear thinking.
Listen to “Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions” on our @aardlingeu.bsky.social YouTube Channel: youtu.be/GOtSrwIut-g (Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.)
One that fit the agile mindset software teams adapted to a long time ago.
In this episode of Satisfying Software, I spoke with @andrewhl.bsky.social on The Architecture Advice Process, a way to make architectural decisions that works inside an agile environment. [2/3]
We often mock architects being in an ivory tower, making all the decisions, not listening to the developers, and not caring if they made the right architectural choices. What most of us failed to notice was that nobody was offering them a different process to make architectural decisions. [1/3]
Looking forward to it! Get your ticket here: 2025.dddeurope.com/program/lead...
Currently working on my new workshop called "Leadership in Software Design". The workshop is going to be great: we will talk about leadership and software design. Other topics we will touch are decisions, people and culture.
HowTo - Quick and easy decisions: a razor, e.g. occam's razor, are philosophical laws designed to help you “shave off” unlikely explanations or thinking patterns. So if you want to eliminate options, try applying the law’s that have the word razor in it.
Listen to “Communication patterns for engineers” on our @aardlingeu.bsky.social YouTube Channel: youtu.be/oKdbQfqDolU (Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.)
What does it mean to be good at communicating? I have tried (and failed) to improve my communication in general because being to communicate your solutions is as important as the solutions. In this episode of Satisfying Software, I spoke with @tekiegirl.bsky.social on the communicating architecture.
