Day 2

Collaboration in complex enterprises often breaks down not because people lack competence or good intentions, but because they interpret the organisation and its challenges through different perspectives.

Architects, developers, designers and business stakeholders frequently operate with different languages, mental models and tools. These differences are valuable, but they can also lead to misunderstandings, hidden assumptions and misalignment that slow down initiatives and make collaboration difficult.

This practical workshop explores how structured conversations can help reveal these hidden assumptions and create shared understanding across disciplines.

Participants will apply a simple enterprise scanning exercise to a real initiative from their own organisation. Through individual reflection, pair discussions and group dialogue, the workshop explores how different perspectives shape how we understand organisations and the initiatives within them.

The goal of the workshop is not only to introduce a practical tool that participants can immediately use in their own organisations, but also to help participants gain new insight into their own current initiatives and how collaboration across perspectives can be improved.

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Many systems are well-architected on paper—structured, scalable, and aligned with best practices. Yet, when they meet everyday work, something happens. Workarounds emerge, informal practices take shape, and the system is adapted in ways that were never intended

This talk explores the gap between design and real work from a socio-technical perspective. Drawing on research and empirical examples from digitalisation in organizational practice, it highlights how systems, people, and organizational contexts interact in ways that challenge assumptions made during design.

Rather than offering prescriptive guidelines, the talk invites reflection on what everyday work can teach us about architecture. What becomes visible when we shift focus from systems as designed to systems as used? And how can these insights help us better understand what it means to build systems that actually work in practice?

The traditional view of software architecture typically places humans outside the system and in the system’s environment. In this talk I argue that there are benefits in shifting this view by bringing humans into an architectural design as first-class entities. The resulting architectural designs can then much better exploit human-system synergies that are required by today’s increasingly autonomous, self-adaptative, and AI-driven systems. We will illustrate the ideas by examining case studies in which this approach has been used to provide formal human-system architectural models that attempt to maximize the respective strengths of both humans and systems. We also highlight some of the key challenges and potential directions for research in maturing these ideas.