Lightning Talk: Reductionism and Holism in DDD - Trond Hjorteland

"DDD is limited because it's too structured"

-- Coplien

We fight complexity by enforcing structure

We're stuck in the analytic mindset

We use reductionism

-split it up

-explain the parts

-to explain the whole

what makes sand soft

we simplify

complex -> constrained to make it complicated

"loses essential properties when taken apart"

analysis is not enough

Synthesis: revert reductionism

understand the whole

understand the part's role in the whole

focus on function

look outside the system

-business

-ux

domain experts often don't know this!

Go one scope up

"conceptual integrity" -- Fred Brooks

Architect: support function / custodian

Sociotechnical system

systems have people in it

focus on outside-in