Duplicate Platform Capabilities
Several teams build similar platform or enablement capabilities in parallel because shared solutions are not trustworthy or accessible enough.
Tragedy of the Commons
The ruthless, locally rational self-interest of all parties destroys a shared architectural good for everyone.
Dependency Mapping
A visualization of technical and organizational entanglements that exposes bottlenecks and dangerous coupling.
Boundary Critique
A method for exposing brutal blind spots by questioning what, and who, was actively excluded from an architecture decision.
Boundary Design
The physical and logical redrawing of boundaries such as APIs and team structures to drastically reduce friction and handoffs across the system.
System Mapping Tools
An architecture decision tree. When do we reach for Miro, when Kumu, when Backstage, and when Vensim? A matrix against dangerous tooling dogmatism in mapping work.
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