Domain-driven design
Learn about domain-driven design and how a domain is cut into models people can own.
Books
Antifragile
Antifragile is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, published in 2012. It separates what breaks under stress from what merely survives it and what gets stronger from it, and argues for building systems of the third kind.
Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a book by anthropologist David Graeber, published in 2018. It argues that a large share of paid work is pointless even in the eyes of the people doing it, and explains how organizations create and defend those jobs.
Bureaucracy and Representative Government
Bureaucracy and Representative Government is a book by economist William A. Niskanen, published in 1971. It models bureaus as budget maximizers: they know their costs better than the politicians who fund them, so they grow past what the service is worth.
High Output Management
High Output Management is a book by Andrew S. Grove, the longtime CEO of Intel, first published in 1983. It treats management as a production process, where a manager's output is the output of the organization they run and influence. It covers leverage, indicators paired with counter-indicators to guard against overreacting to a single number, one-on-ones, meetings, decision-making, and task-relevant maturity.
Management by Objectives
a management model by Peter Drucker, most notably described in the book *The Practice of Management* (1954). MBO emphasizes the importance of managers and employees defining clear, measurable objectives together. Progress is assessed regularly and tasks are aligned with these objectives to improve performance and organizational focus.
Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, published in 2018. It argues that people who decide must carry the downside of their decisions, and that systems decay when the risk and the reward sit with different people.
Team Topologies
Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais explores four fundamental team types and three essential team interaction modes, providing practical guidance for structuring technology organizations to improve flow and reduce cognitive load.
The Goal
The Goal is the foundational text for operations management, Lean manufacturing, and modern DevOps. It is where the concepts of bottlenecks, the illusion of local optimization, and the Five Focusing Steps were originally codified. It is a business novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt first published in 1984. It introduces the Theory of Constraints: a system's throughput is limited by its bottleneck, and improving anything else does not improve the system.
The Mythical Man-Month
Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975, with subsequent editions in 1982 and 1995. Its central theme is that adding manpower to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer. This idea is known as Brooks´s law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping
The Politics of Bureaucracy
The Politics of Bureaucracy is a book by economist Gordon Tullock, published in 1965. It applies economic reasoning to officials inside large organizations: each one pursues their own advancement, and information distorts as it moves up the hierarchy.
The Practice of Management
The Practice of Management is a book by Peter F. Drucker, first published in 1954. It was one of the first books to treat management as a distinct discipline, and it introduced Management by Objectives and self-control, where managers and their teams agree on clear objectives and measure their own progress against them. It also argues that the purpose of a business is to create a customer, and includes the parable of the three stonecutters.
The Tyranny of Metrics
The Tyranny of Metrics is a book by historian Jerry Z. Muller, published in 2018. It shows how measuring performance and tying rewards to the numbers distorts the work being measured, in schools, medicine, policing, business and government.
Theory of Constraints
Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s 1990 exposition of the Theory of Constraints: how to identify, exploit, subordinate to, and elevate the system’s bottleneck so throughput rises instead of local efficiency.
Thinking in Systems
Thinking in Systems is a primer by Donella H. Meadows, published in 2008 and edited by Diana Wright after her death. It explains stocks, flows and feedback loops, why systems produce their own behavior, and where to intervene to change it.