Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture

Part II

Driving Business Innovation

Executive Summary

In Part I, we established the goals of pursuing digital transformation as a revenue-generating business strategy, and applying the proper mindset, culture, and learning tools to facilitate this effort. Now it’s time to delve into a software development technique that promotes and upholds the value-generating goals. It helps businesses understand where strategic investments should be made, and where they should not.

The technique and practices advanced in this part of the book are readily adoptable. To provide a brief summary, this approach acknowledges that differences in perceptions and viewpoints within business capabilities and processes are not only common, but necessary. That is, depending ...