Web Directions Summit 2023

How your architecture can inhibit or promote organisational change

Improving the way we work as teams is fundamental to improving team autonomy, reducing cycle time and lowering dependency bottlenecks, however sometimes impediments to improving the way we work lay in how our systems are architected. This is a case study into how the ABC re-architected our digital platforms to support improvements in the way we work. It outlines what we did, and why, and some lessons we learned along the way.

Anthony Willis

Ant has been in digital development for over 20 years, starting as a web engineer on now defunct languages and platforms, but always in the media space. Since joining the ABC 14 years ago, Ant has had a sole ambition of improving the craft and visibility of software engineering within the organisation, where he now leads digital development and architecture teams spanning across web, mobile apps and voice, through to the underpinning APIs, platforms and services that drive them.