Andrew Harmel-Law

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They/them. Technical Principal at Thoughtworks UK. All opinions are my own (at least I sourced them myself) and don't reflect those of my employer.

Cover of the O'Reilly book "Facilitating Software Architecture" book by Andrew Harmel-Law.
Social media card for my NewCrafts 2025 talk: "Everything you ever wanted to know about Anarchy but were afraid to ask" NewCrafts takes place in Paris November 6-7.
Promo card for my GOTO Copenhagen 2025 talk. It says "Learn how to make architecture everyone's job without creating chaos, with Andrew Harmel-Law, Tech Principal at Thoughtworks"
Slide of a physical collaboration board.
Pic of a tweet by Cat Hicks PhD. )Hopefully she’ll sub-skeet this with the original one… 🤞🏻)
Picture of Yevgen’s slide. On the left is a coupled pair of components and coupled trams On the left is the coupled components all owned by one of the teams along with a team member moving to support the component move. Now the trams are decoupled. The teams can go and eat ice cream.
Speaker card for my Domain-Driven Design Europe talk: "Variability: The Second Hardest Problem in Systems Architecture". The conference is on 4-6th June in Antwerp.
My photo alongside a celebratory generative AI graphic to celebrate Thoughtworks new positioning.
Social media card for my LDX3 talk "How to make the perfect decision". The 15% discount code is ANDREWH15.
Boxes of two classic board games from the 80s: Talisman, The Magical Quest Game on the left and Kings & Things* on the right.
Screenshot of my book, Facilitating Software Architecture listed on an Iranian Website.
Shows the overview of the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International licence.
Black and white paint-sketch of a skull. The view is from the underside, with the spinal cord hole in the skull’s base and jawbone both clearly visible.
Excerpt from the acknowledgements of “Facilitating Software Architecture” by Andrew Harmel-Law. Anne is one of the people thanked.
Long-exposure photo of a hedge at night. In the centre of the hedge is a “warning” road sign.
Sheep in a field at night. It’s cloudy. In the distance there is the glow of light pollution from a small town.
Map of the Penguin Fighting Fantasy book “The Warlock of Firetop Mountain”
Article from New York Times (Intl Ed) 7th Nov, 2024. Front page. (Quote is in the main post.)
First three slides for my NewCrafts Friday keynote which will cover: 1) depressing facts 2) why it’s so depressing 3) how to keep an eye out for this 4) choose your own ending (happy/sad)
Memoji of me working on a laptop. It needs waaaaaay more stickers to be accurate though.
Post-its representing the structure and content for chapter 14 of the book I’m writing.
Photo of my wall with post-it’s representing the sections and sub-sections of chapter 12.