Leading by Design

by Paul Rayner

  • Cleaning up 93 grammar paradigms with AI agents

      Sep 15, 2025    3 min read   AI | Development | Productivity | Claude | Hebrew |

    Last week I had to deal with a mess I'd been putting off for way too long. Here's how I used AI agents to systematically clean up 93 grammar paradigms in parallel.

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  • Plotting Paths to Cloud Migration

      Mar 23, 2020    9 min read   Cloud | Design | DDD | Architecture |

    Using the up or out plane to plot the migration path, it becomes apparent that many migrations aren't a one-shot type of endeavor. — Gregor Hohpe

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  • Cloud Strategy, Design And Automation

      Mar 19, 2020    3 min read   Cloud | Design | Architecture |

    …getting new features into production quickly is the real currency of the digital world. — Gregor Hohpe

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  • EventStorming Team Flow

      May 13, 2019    6 min read   DDD | EventStorming | Flow | VSM | Lean | Agile |

    Most development teams remain blissfully unaware of the negative impact of these invisible queues on productivity, or how to deal with them effectively.

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  • Explore DDD - Realtime Retrospective

      Jan 22, 2019    2 min read   DDD | Agile |

    At YOW! 2016, fellow speaker Emily Webber told me about a cool experiment she had run at recent conference. Emily described a visible, participative way - a Realtime Retrospective - to reflect and improve throughout a conference.

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  • BDD is a Centered Community Rather than a Bounded Community

      Mar 28, 2015    10 min read   BDD |

    Dan North mentioned at one point in the CukeUp 2015 panel yesterday the notion in theology of a community being a 'bounded set.' BDD is a centered community, rather than a bounded community.

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  • Good Design is People-Centered - Design Quotes Part 5

      Feb 9, 2015    1 min read   Design |

    A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. These quotes are about the goal of design, which is centered around meeting the needs of real people.

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  • Persisting Value Objects

      Jan 22, 2015    4 min read   DDD |

    It can be challenging sometimes to know how best to persist value objects to a data store, especially if you are using a RDBMS. There are a variety of options to choose from, however, depending on your needs and constraints.

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