Wouter on Architecture

Naming is hard: choosing a C# Dictionary

A crisp decision flow for Dictionary, FrozenDictionary, ImmutableDictionary, ConcurrentDictionary, ReadOnlyDictionary, and friends.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on June 14, 2026 · 10 mins read

Arius 7 and Spec-Driven Development at scale: a failure mode

A follow-up on what spec-driven development got right, where it failed, and why domain judgment still matters.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on June 11, 2026 · 14 mins read

The Coaching Habit (Book)

A concise summary of the book's seven coaching questions and why they beat reflexive advice-giving.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on March 18, 2026 · 4 mins read

Coaching with Context: Applying Situational Leadership in 1-on-1s

Situational Leadership gives coaches a practical way to adapt 1-on-1s to the coachee's readiness.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on March 09, 2026 · 14 mins read

Classic Problems Have Classic Solutions

TRIZ shows that many hard problems reduce to recurring contradictions with recurring solution patterns.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on March 05, 2026 · 4 mins read

Who's Got The Monkey

A short, modern retelling of the classic delegation essay about keeping the next action with the right person.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on February 26, 2026 · 5 mins read

The Ackoff Lectures: A Blog Series on Systems Thinking, Management, and the World We're Building

An eight-part introduction to Russell Ackoff's lectures on the shift from the Machine Age to the Systems Age and what that change demands of management, planning, organisations, and education.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on February 25, 2026 · 91 mins read

Developing Arius 5 during the dawn of AI assisted code

A reflection on rewriting Arius with modern .NET practices and on how copy-paste AI help evolved into full coding-agent workflows.

Posted by Wouter van Ranst on November 06, 2025 · 12 mins read

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