The instruments of the method
The free tools of the MOSY Method, organized by phase: Align, Design and Build. Templates and visuals that are easy to use and helpful from day one.
Align
Get business and tech on the same page: capture intent, map functions, set the vision and the rules, and decide where AI fits.
TroubleBubbles
Free interactive diagnostic: map the symptoms slowing your delivery to the practices that fix the root cause. Explore the problem tree and get recommendations from the method.
Stakeholder Interview
Collect opportunities, pain points, and feedback from the key stakeholders involved in software architecture. Use their inputs to inform technical designs, plan evolutionary changes, and align business objectives with software architecture.
Delivery Function Map
Analyze how your organization's roles map to the functions required to deliver software (from idea to coding). Spot gaps and unclear responsibilities, and fix them by adapting your current structure instead of adding more people with fuzzy duties.
Software Architecture Vision
Visualize the opportunities and challenges of your current system and connect them with a plan and a step-by-step sequence aligned to your company's objectives. Works for refactoring big systems and for designing them from scratch.
Principles & Guidelines
Choose your technology principles and dos and don'ts to balance team independence with overall consistency and governance. Prioritize non-functional requirements so engineers decide faster, and favor a standard toolset to accelerate development.
Technology Adoption Table
Like a radar, but simpler and adapted to your organization. Standardize your stack while making clear statements about tools you plan to adopt, or others you've already discarded. Simple, collaborative, easy to update. Works great combined with ADRs.
Software Architecture Community
Templates and guidelines to run decentralized software architecture in your organization. Empower engineering teams to contribute to architecture and decision-making, while keeping a simple central registry and clear accountability.
AI Adoption Strategy
Map where AI fits across your SDLC, decide where it accelerates work and where humans keep control, and turn it into a phased, governed adoption plan with metrics, not hype. The free StrategyRadar does this mapping in 15 minutes.
Design
Turn the alignment into an architecture. The MOSY Framework is the visual notation at the heart of this phase.
Systems Modeling (MOSY Framework)
The MOSY Framework: a complete, visual diagramming notation with a simple set of instructions to align every aspect of a software project, business goals, product functionality, metrics, conceptual data model, and technical components. This is the notation at the heart of the Design phase.
Architecture Decision Records
My flavor of this well-known practice: templates, inventory structure, rules, and guidelines. Combine it with the community tools so teams take part in architecture decisions, improving motivation and engagement.
Build
The instruments of Build aren't templates, they're AI agents. They live, free, in StrategyRadar, the library of the method.
See the agentsAll these tools are covered in detail in The Practical Software Architect, the companion book to the MOSY Method, with step-by-step instructions and real-world examples.
Get the bookKey benefits of using the tools
Simple and straightforward to use
Forget complex software architecture frameworks. If you need a 500+ page document to use it, how can others contribute or understand its artifacts? All the instructions for my tools fit on a single sheet of paper. Copy a template, check the examples, and start using them the same day.
Practical and collaborative
My tools and visuals are designed to spark discussion among engineers, architects, and their stakeholders. The tools themselves aren't the key to success; the conversations behind them and the agreements they produce are.
Connect business and technology
The main goal of my tools is a shared understanding between technology and business. I use concise, straightforward visuals everyone can read, while keeping technical detail in separate views.
Adaptable to your environment
I provide my tools and templates in multiple formats. I'm not married to any methodology or trying to create a new one. Pick the tools that suit you and use them with Agile or any other approach.
The tools are free. The method makes them work.
Get hands-on applying these instruments to your own systems in a workshop, or see how they fit the full method.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can. All my tools are licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
No, you don't. Use whatever tool you like or are constrained to in your organization. Most of my tools are simple visuals, tables, and instructions working together. Adapt the structures as needed or recreate them as you want.
Sure! Just follow the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. I'm always open to working with partners, so feel free to drop me an email, as I'm always curious about the uses of my tools.