Kenny Baas-Schwegler
A lot of knowledge is lost when designing and building software — lost because of hand-overs in a telephone game, confusing communication by not having a shared language, discussing complexity without visualisation and by not leveraging the full potential and wisdom of the diversity of the people. That lost knowledge while creating software impacts the sustainability, quality and value of the software product. Kenny Baas-Schwegler is a socio-technical architect. He blends IT approaches like Domain-Driven Design and Continuous Delivery and facilitates change through using visual collaboration practices, the Cynefin framework and Deep Democracy. Kenny empowers and collaboratively enables organisations, teams and groups of people in designing and building sustainable quality software products.
One of Kenny's core principles is sharing knowledge. He does that by writing a blog on his website baasie.com and helping curate the Leanpub book visual collaboration tool. Besides writing, he also shares experience in the Domain-Driven Design community as an organiser of Virtual Domain-Driven Design and Domain Driven Design Nederland. He enjoys being a public speaker by giving talks and hands-on workshops at conferences and meetups.
Talks I've Given
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Does Culture Impact Software Design?
Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Avraham Poupko
DDD is about communicating complexity via human language. This poses a challenge when working in a culturally diverse team. In this talk, Kenny and Avram and you will explore how culture can serve both as a challenge and opportunity.
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How Cognitive Biases and Ranking Can Foster an Ineffective Architecture
Featuring Evelyn van Kelle and Kenny Baas-Schwegler
If we are not aware of them, cognitive biases and ranking can kill the insights, wisdom and benefits of collaborative modeling. In this we will interactively explore how we can improve our facilitation skills and focus on neuro-inclusiveness with Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD).
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Towards Autonomously aligned teams with Domain-Driven Design
Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Kenny has been involved in several transformations over the years, from DevOps to Digital to Agile. These transformations typically focus on transitioning people into near-autonomous teams of no more than eight people who will work in an agile manner. Every company he has worked for has asked the...
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Crunching 'Real-Life Stories' with DDD Event Storming and Combining it with BDD Techniques
Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler
To really understand what your users will need, you want to have a first-hand experience from 'real-life stories' before you can model and create your software. While both the DDD and BDD techniques emphasis on ‘real-life stories’ by doing collaborative deliberate learning, they both...
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Placing Microservices in Digital Transformations
Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Gideon de Kok
Microservices and Digital Transformations share a lot of the same properties; (almost) everyone is doing it, (almost) nobody knows how to do it, (almost) no-one actually knows what it means beyond the buzzword bingo. But in the focus to reduce structural complexity, the increase of autonomy and...
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Lightning Talk: I got Trapped. Stories of System Traps in the IT
Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Donella Meadows book, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. In her book, Donella describes eight system traps and how to get out of it.
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Events-First Microservices with Lagom
Featuring Gideon de Kok and Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Digital transformations are the new hype. By switching to a more IT-oriented organization, businesses hope to achieve a new level of flexibility to answer better to the fast changing demands of customers. Companies often start their new customer-driven strategy with a big-bang agile...
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Enterprise Architecture & DDD: Partners in Design
Led by Kenny Baas-Schwegler
This half-day workshop is part of the Software Architecture Gathering Digital — 2021. Join
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