Writing as Thinking Workshop
An eight-week course for technologists — introducing writing practices for thinking, learning and leading.
Software Architecture Stream: Nonlinear Thinking
We are used to linear thinking – but nonlinear thinking is what helps with modern challenges around software architecture.
Nonlinear Thinking Workshop
We are conditioned to think linearly. Linear thinking enables us build and deploy software. But it can not resolve systemic issues. For systems, we need nonlinear thinking.
The Hard Skills? Practices for Systems Leadership
In the world of “digital transformation”, software is becoming systems. Unfortunately, we don’t think in systems. To provide systems leadership, IT professionals need an emerging set of (new) skills.
Systems Thinking: Beyond Coding Interview
Designing systems that accommodate for information in many contexts is incredibly interesting. Alas, we don’t (yet) think and act in systems.
Add Dot Podcast: Systems Thinking
Vaughn Vernon and Diana Montalion discuss how systems thinking can help software architects transform software into systems of software.
Integration Leadership
Integration leadership delivers the type of thinking that cultivates conceptual integrity and solves systems challenges.
Mindshift: Cultivate Trustworthy Thinking
When building modern architectures, the hard part isn’t learning Kubernetes. The hard part is the mindshift: changing the way (almost) everyone thinks.
Building Trust
Andrei Crudu, host of the Techie Leadership podcast, interviews Diana Montalion about building trust. The critical skill for systems transformation.
Speaking Truth to Power: A Foundational Skillset
Speaking truth to power is a foundational systems architecture skillset as we transform organizational “power” structures (when necessary).
Making a Case for Conceptual Integrity
Systems architecture is the art and science of making interdependent decisions while maintaining conceptual integrity.