Architecture for Flow¶

Architecture for Flow is the practice of designing system boundaries so that cognitive load and team interactions remain sustainable over time. Each service or component should fit within a single team's working memory, and interfaces between components should minimize the coordination overhead between the teams that own them. When teams have to negotiate every deployment or debug failures that span three codebases, the architecture is working against flow rather than enabling it.

See also: Team Topologies · Conway's Law · Inverse Conway Maneuver

Methods: Architecture for Flow Workflow