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Understanding Structures of the Business
A story-led guide to map customers, products, value streams, and functions into an org structure that reliably ships value.
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Internal Value Streams: When Shared Platforms Accelerate Architecture—and When They Don’t
What Internal Value Streams Are—and Why Architects Should Care
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Process: Identifying Value Streams
A Practical Guide for Architects and Engineers to Navigate Business Boundaries
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Process: Searching for Value
A Practical Framework for Modeling Value Across Markets and Roles
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Process: How to Translate Requirements into a Technical Solution
A Practical Guide for Software Architects: Turning Requirements into Architecture
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Process: Getting Requirements from Tech Teams
How to Translate Engineering Feedback into Business-Aligned Goals
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Process: Getting Requirements from Business
How to Ask the Right Questions—and Get Answers You Can Build On
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Process: What Those Business Guys Want from Us, Technical People
Making Sense of What the Business Really Wants from Engineering
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Process: Who Is the Stakeholder and How to Find One
Who Really Holds the Stakes? Navigating the Human Side of Architecture
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Styles: Distributed
A story about scaling, separating, and stitching things back together
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Styles: Monolithic
A story about growing from the inside out
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Ilya Hardzeenka
Architecture Styles: Monolithic vs Distributed Architecture
A story about choices, trade-offs, and learning to live with your decisions
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Ilya Hardzeenka
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