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Book Review: Human software
“You can tell the mood of the systems from the people who are supporting it. That is what true legacy is, it’s the human history of the company.”
2025 Highlights
During the Christmas holiday, I had the opportunity to go through my end-of-year review ritual again, where I looked back on 2025 and did some “looking forward” to 2026.
Enabling + Platforms Strategic Pattern - Talk Kandddinsky 2025
I had the pleasure of speaking again at the Kandddinsky conference— one of my favorite conferences. This year, I gave a new talk exploring a topic I have been working on for years, and in time, seeing that it seems to be a recurrent, yet often ignored, pattern: how can we effectively improve our organization and team skills by leveraging Enabling Activities and Platforms (as in @TeamTopologies)?
Fiver years of Team Topologies - Panel AmA 2025
This year (2025), I had the pleasure of participating in a very interesting panel at the Agile meets Architecture conference on the topic of “5 years of Team Topologies”, where we reflected on the impact, adoption, and developments around Team Topologies since its release five years ago. This was an excellent experience for me, as I was on the panel with people whom I genuinely admire and respect…
Enabling Thinking & Teams Articles Series
TL;DR: This is the first article of a series on Enabling Thinking & Teams. In it, I briefly frame this series and my motivations for writing it. Furthermore, I share my initial list of articles for the series (based on what I have been observing and learning on these topics). At the end of the article, I also have a link to a feedback form to gather insights on the topics I plan to cover and any…
Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)
I co-authored this article with Nick Tune (article on Nick’s blog) based on our experiences and learnings from working together with clients on architecture modernization initiatives. This is the second article of a series on Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMETs). Find more about AMETs here: esilva.net/amet
2023 Work Year Review & Looking Forward to 2024
TL;DR: In this article, I share some highlights of my 2023 “work year”. I will also share some notes on what keeps me busy and excited and some topics I will put more effort into in 2024.
Towards Sustainable Learning, Designing and Decision-making (Keynote Agile Tour Vienna 2023)
I was really happy to be invited to do the keynote opening for the Agile Tour Vienna Conference edition 2023. This long-running event started as a local event but, over time, has become a great international conference on different topics around Agile and going beyond Agile. There were a lot of interesting talks and many engaged people. I had a great time and many interesting discussions over the…
Platform Thinking Podcast - Emergent Platform and Evolution in Sociotechnical Systems
On the 20th of July, 2023, I had the pleasure of being on Jabe Bloom’s (and Ergonautic) Platform Thinking podcast.