This book presents a holistic approach that integrates business strategy, software design and architecture, and team organization to create adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for continuous change and feedback. It will be published as part of Vaughn Vernon’s Signature Series at Addison-Wesley.
This book offers a comprehensive toolset for organizations to anticipate change, unlock blockers to flow, and maintain competitive advantage in an increasingly uncertain world by connecting the dots between Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies.
Architecture for Flow connects strategic thinking with software design. The integration of Wardley Mapping and Domain-Driven Design is particularly valuable, showing how business strategy can directly inform architectural decisions. Essential reading for those ready to think beyond code.
Creator of Extreme Programming
One of the most important lessons from the eras of Cloud and Generative AI is that effective, adaptive organizations are designed. The book Architecture for Flow superbly articulates these key design principles that enable organizations to scale whilst remaining nimble and responsive to technology changes: highly recommended.
CEO/CTO at Conflux | Co-author of Team Topologies
Susanne brilliantly synthesizes Domain-Driven Design, Team Topologies, and Wardley Maps into a unified approach that truly works in practice. Her exceptionally clear writing and approachable practical examples navigate strategy, architecture, and team organization in a way that technical leaders and practitioners can immediately apply to their context.
CEO High Speed Training Ltd.
Susanne Kaiser’s book offers a powerful, practical framework that combines Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies to build adaptive, resilient systems. A must-read for architects, tech leads, and anyone looking to navigate complexity and design systems that thrive in an ever-changing world.
Managing director WPS
Susanne Kaiser writes with the precision of an architect and the care of a guide. This book is a powerful call to stop treating business, tech, and teams as separate problems. A must-read for anyone trying to evolve legacy software, a growing org, or their own thinking about complex systems.
Independent DDD consultant and sociotechnical architect
Susanne brilliantly combines Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies to show how meaningful software can be delivered quickly. It empowers software architects to help design the solutions correctly. It empowers engineering leaders to help shape the team correctly to deliver value for the business. This book is a must-read for anyone serious about modern software architecture.
Principal engineer, domainanalysis.io
Susanne’s book finally provides a blueprint for combining three approaches (DDD, Team Topologies, and Wardley Mapping) that forward-thinking organizations have been leveraging for real Business–IT alignment (and in the process achieving highly motivated workforces as well). She has made them accessible and connected for everyone. The secret to fast flow of value to customers, with adaptive organizations supporting the business strategy in ever evolving landscapes is now at everyone’s fingertips!
Co-author of Team Topologies
This is a book about aligning business, architecture, and teams to unlock change. It invites you to look at your current position, explore your blockers and enablers, visualize the environment you operate in, and chart a course from the “as-is” to the “to-be.” It draws on Wardley Mapping to make sense of the strategic landscape. It uses Domain-Driven Design to break down complexity into manageable parts. It applies Team Topologies to ensure those parts can deliver value quickly and safely. Then it connects all these dots and more and it does so without pretending that there is one right answer. In short, this is not a book of dogma but a book of discovery. Read full foreword.
Creator of Wardley Mapping
The book you are about to read is not merely a techie book. It’s an amazingly elegant mesh of Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies, all orchestrated within an architecture for continuous software value flow. That was easy for me to type. Yet, delivering that as a helpful book is a challenge beyond most authors’ scope, especially when rendering those topics with top-shelf quality and economy or words. I’ll describe it by quoting Mark Twain: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” You’d probably think that for an author to write a book spanning such a large subject, they would have to produce 700 to 800 pages. Not if Susanne is the author. What you hold in your hands is one of the most concise and approachable books on these topics, but one that doesn’t compromise detail. As the series editor, I found her book a page-turner. It was such a pleasure to review and learn from. And her hand-drawn illustrations are the dessert with a fine five-course dinner. I feel like anything more that I write would only take time away from you enjoying this excellent treatment of strategic planning, architecture, design, and team organization, and a great learning experience, delivered with heart by a kind and empathetic software leader. Read full foreword.
Series editor, author of Strategic Monoliths and Microservices, Implementing Domain-Driven Design, Domain-Driven Design Distilled
Susanne Kaiser has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and software architecture. Her journey began in 2002 and includes serving as a start-up CTO, where she gained deep insights into technical, organizational, and strategic challenges.
Today, she works as an independent tech consultant, helping companies design, build, and evolve adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for a fast flow of change. Driven by a passion for tackling complex systems, Susanne specializes in connecting the dots between Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies. She regularly shares these insights as a speaker at international tech conferences and through her consulting work with organizations worldwide.
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