The Software Transformation Playbook

From Legacy to Sustainable Ecosystems using the Systemic Event Discovery Approach
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 979-8-8688-3292-5
Verlag: APRESS L.P.

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Software teams and organizations today are crippled by legacy infrastructure, brittle structures, and out-of-step developers and engineers. Although digital transformation is a strategic necessity, the majority of initiatives fall short of their goals not because of a lack of tools, but because of underlying organizational, architectural, and cultural problems.

This book presents a fully integrated and practical method of software transformation that goes further than technical migrations or isolated agile adoption. It emphasizes the Systemic Event Discovery Approach (SEDA). a field-tested method that combines Domain-Driven Design, Systems Thinking, and Team Topologies into an integrated technique to transformation. Structured into three parts, Part I explores sociotechnical complexity, examining how software as a system is shaped by people and organizations rather than just code. Part II takes a deep dive into SEDA, guiding you through the software transformation process, its lifecycle and its long-term solutions. Part III showcases SEDA in practice with use cases and best practices highlighting the lessons learned and the delivery of the transformation process with actual patterns and anti-patterns. 

takes you from early discovery to system redesign and. Its evolution delivers success across software projects and infrastructure that stands up to ever-increasingly sophisticated software systems, cross-functional teams and AI platforms that require more than code-level solutions.

What You Will Learn

• Drive sustainable software transformation with the Systemic Event Discovery Approach (SEDA).
• Integrate architecture, team design, and business alignment.
• Uncover invisible dependencies, feedback loops, and organizational chokehold that tend to derail modernization initiatives.
• Redesign systems around business domains with event storming, domain-driven design, and team topologies.
• Apply systems thinking and team topologies for better collaboration, faster delivery, and stronger architectures.
• Sustain continuous evolution through feedback loops, fitness functions, and architecture sensing practices.

Who This Book Is For

Senior code-writing professionals (software developers and architects), and leaders involved in software architecture, platform modernization, and digital and organizational transformation

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chelongar, Masoud

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Linux Betriebssysteme, Open Source Betriebssysteme
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Navigating Sociotechnical Complexity .- Chapter 1: The Invisible Constraints of Sociotechnical Systems.- Chapter 2: Foundational Tools for Successful Transformation.- Part II: Principles of SEDA .- Chapter 3: System Discovery and Diagnosis.- Chapter 4: Redesigning Around Domains.- Chapter 5: Managing Emergent Behaviours and Feedback.- Chapter 6: Sustaining Evolution after Transformation.- Part III: Use-Cases and Best Practices. - Chapter 7: Breaking Silos.- Chapter 8: Modernizing Without Mayhem.- Chapter 9: Software Transformation Anti-Patterns.

Über Autor(innen)

Masoud Chelongar is an independent software architect and software transformation specialist with more than a decade of experience in software engineering, architecture, and technology leadership. His career has evolved from hands-on software development to software architecture and technical leadership, including serving as a CTO.

His work focuses on the evolution of complex sociotechnical and distributed systems, where software architecture, organizational structures, and communication patterns continuously influence one another. He brings together Systems Thinking, Domain-Driven Design, Team Topologies, and software architecture to address transformation as a system-wide challenge rather than an isolated technical exercise.

Masoud is the creator of the Systemic Event Discovery Approach (SEDA), an approach for understanding and transforming sociotechnical systems through observable events, structural patterns, collaborative modeling, and continuous feedback. Alongside his work with organizations, he shares his experience through conference talks and workshops. His focus is on turning architectural and organizational concepts into practical approaches that teams can apply to real transformation challenges. 

More about his work, talks, and publications can be found at https://www.chelongar.com