![]() We also loose ourself because of others.”Īn effect that boundaries can have is that we can turn more into isolation if we are not careful. We form our own subculture by comparing us to others, by finding the contrast with another. “A tribe, community or organisation exists because of the border between inside and outside, who is in and who is not. In her book Jam culture Jitske Kramer also mentioned the following: It reshapes what is outside, just as it shapes what is inside.- VisArch JanuThe cultural needs designing bounded contexts System design is contextual design - it is inherently about boundaries (what’s in, what’s out, what spans, what moves between), and about tradeoffs. In that same line of the reason we see the same for architecture design, where the following tweet of Ruth Malan in my opinion explains it all:Īrchitectural design is system design. Because of the borders with others, we are ourselves.” Because of the way other people are, we can be the way we are. We have never defined our self without others. “We can only create that identity and individuality by others. However, in Jitske Kramer her book Jam culture (Later this year translated in English) she says: That group can become a team with its own identity and individuality. As humans, we need borders to be able to identify with each other in a group. Bounded means we draw a border around a context and a team can take ownership of that boundary. It does increase autonomy, and that also gives us a chance to increase our mastery, depending on the culture of the company, of course!Īnother cultural benefit of the bounded context is in its name, bounded. Some also call the bounded context an autonomous boundary. It gives us a purpose because we define a model for a purpose, and it gives us autonomy by being a language boundary. ![]() The cultural benefit of a bounded context, when properly designed, is that it gives us autonomy and purpose. After this threshold, people only get motivated by autonomy, purpose and mastery. That threshold being meeting the basic needs and feel that they are being paid fairly. ![]() In his book, Daniel explains that MIT studies show that employees who work beyond basic tasks won’t get more motivated by more money after a certain threshold. In almost all these talks, we see a reference to Daniel Pink’s his book ‘Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us’. Several people in the domain-driven design community already talked about the cultural benefits of a bounded context. The cultural benefits designing bounded contexts The bounded context, for that reason, does not mean you also have a system boundary. We use a shared language created through conversations between business people (specialists) and software people, which becomes the ubiquitous language. The focus on language means the bounded context is a language boundary and not a system boundary as you we see in microservices. Consistent over time, meaning the language of the model will never be ambiguous, it can change over time. We create a model for a purpose where the language in that boundary stays consistent over time. When designing a bounded context, we focus on a language where we really crisply concisely describe the situation in the domain. The bounded context is a conscious design decision a group of people, preferably a team makes. The pattern is fuzzy by design, so let me first explain what I mean with the bounded context pattern. ![]() The bounded context is a pattern from Eric Evans book domain-driven design. In this post, I describe these culture needs when using the bounded context pattern. Now if we want to keep the cultural benefits of the bounded context within our company, we must also take care of the cultural needs designing bounded contexts. ![]() However, to be able to define our self, we must also define the others to keep our own identity. When we look at cultural anthropology, we traditionally did this on the border through get-togethers like marketplaces, where we exchange goods. To define our self creates an identity, a feeling of belonging which in time can create ownership. People cannot live without boundaries it is a way in which we can define our self and separate us from the rest. Boundaries for people are crucial from a culture perspective. The bounded context is in its core a language boundary, a boundary where language can stay consistent and which is the boundary of the model designed for a purpose. Especially in the land of microservices architectures, where setting proper bounded context which is highly linked with the business goals aka the domain is essential to not get into the distributed monolith anti-pattern. Without a doubt, the bounded context pattern from Eric Evans book domain-driven design is one of the more essential patterns for designing and building modern software. ![]()
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