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Strategic DDD: The Art of Customer-Supplier Relationships
Welcome to our exploration of Domain-Driven Design’s strategic patterns! In this post, we’ll dive deep into the Customer-Supplier relationship pattern, a more formalized version of team interactions in bounded contexts.
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Understanding Customer-Supplier
Think of this relationship like a professional service agreement between two departments. Unlike the pure upstream/downstream pattern, the supplier actively considers the customer’s needs when planning changes. It’s a relationship built on negotiation, clear expectations, and mutual understanding of requirements.
Detailed Analysis
The Customer-Supplier relationship formalises interactions through clear service agreements and negotiated interfaces. This pattern creates a more balanced dynamic where the supplier team often negotiates with the customers needs when planning changes. This…
