I help software developers build successful software through software architecture that fits. | Consultant & Trainer @ imarqio

Trying to move 50 people in a VW Polo? Bad idea.

Trying to scale to 50 developers with architecture knowledge stuck in one person's head? Just as bad.

Architecture development needs to fit your team - like transportation fits the number of people. With 5 developers in one team, informal coordination works. With 50 developers across multiple teams, you need systematic approaches and distributed knowledge - or your teams will trip over each other.

Know the feeling? You hire more developers, but software delivery slows down. Every new feature takes longer. Time-to-market drops. And you ask yourself: "Why is everything getting slower when we're investing more?"

The problem isn't your team. The problem is that knowledge sits in 2-3 heads - and the approach doesn't scale when you grow to multiple teams.

Most companies then try one of 3 solutions:
→ Book external training (theory without context to your organization)
→ Hire a full-time architect (concentrates knowledge in one person again)
→ Let the team figure it out themselves (overwhelming without systematic guidance)

All 3 fail at the same point: They don't embed architecture in the organization.

And meanwhile, the clock is ticking: features pile up, the business is waiting, your best developers are considering leaving.

I do something different: I help decision-makers in growing software companies embed architecture knowledge and ownership in your teams. Not through dependency, but through enablement.

My Context-First approach:
- I start with: Who makes decisions? How do you communicate? Only then: Which patterns?
- I develop WITH your teams, not FOR your teams
- My success is measurable: you don't need me anymore

22+ years of practice, 2,800+ hours of training, 321+ successful projects.

The pattern I see again and again: architecture knowledge in 2-5 heads. My work: Distribute that knowledge into the organization. Typical timeline: 3-6 months to independence.

What does your organization look like when I'm gone?
Your teams make coordinated, autonomous architecture decisions, new team members become productive quickly, and you deliver reliably - without me.

The longer you wait, the deeper the dependency on individual knowledge holders becomes.

I deliberately work with only a few organizations at a time. In our first conversation, we'll figure out if I'm even the right fit for you. No pitch, no obligation, just clarity. 30 minutes. Message me.

Sönke Schwenk

N R Malotaux - Consultancy

Helping you one day a week, for only several weeks, almost immediately can make your project going like a train. Sounds unbelievable? That's what many thought, until they did it.
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Coaching people/teams/organisations on delivering ‘Quality on Time’: The Right Results at the Right Time
Challenging what we do and how we do things, leading to faster delivery of better results.

Taught and coached well over 400 projects/teams in 40+ organizations in the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Germany, Ireland, India, Israel, Japan, Poland, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, the UK and the US, which led to a wealth of experience in which approaches work better and which work less well in practice. Within a few weeks, projects coached start delivering better results in some 30% less time by focusing on business results and optimizing teamwork. That's only the beginning. Optimizing QA activities. Coaching management. Helping people with how to better do reviews and how to better design reliable electronics, firmware and software. The coaching is not limited to electronic products and software development. Customers have been in the fields of software, space, rail, automotive, building automation, parking systems, highway signalling, and some other I'm not allowed to mention. Working all over the world.

Project Coach

Malotaux - Electronic Systems Design

Design of electronic products for our customers
Delivering zero-defect designs: building quality in

Owner

Philips

Educating customers on the use of microprocessors, uarts and other peripheral chips. Writing application reports. Lectures at conferences. Design and presentation of 4-day MicroComputer Systems Design Course.

Application Engineer

Available to challenge your team to deliver the Right Results on Time

Specialties:
Coaching on delivering ‘Quality on Time’: The Right Results at the Right Time.
Within a few weeks, most project/teams deliver successfully on time or earlier, saving a lot of time and cost.
Sounds incredible? That’s what many thought, until they tried.
Result oriented, very pragmatic, Return on Investment, and Value driven.

Moved home from the Netherlands to Germany, and part of the year in Japan, but serving clients anywhere.

From time to time, clients still ask me to actually develop a new electronic product (hardware/firmware), keeping first-hand understanding what development projects/teams actually do.

Coaching:
- 1998~current: Taught and coached well over 400 projects/teams at 40+ organizations in the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Serbia, the UK, and the USA: software, electronics, embedded systems, satellite, rail, mechanical, product design, and research projects, to become much more successful in much shorter time.

Some previous customers: Agrovision (NL), Astron (NL), China Institute for Innovation (CN), Continental (RO), Cylon (IE), Dutch Space (NL), General Dynamics (US), Haufe(DE), Infineon (DE/RO), Keio University (JP), NS (NL), NXP (NL), Priva (NL), ROHM (JP), Tektronix (US), Tiscali (NL), TNO-NITG (NL), WPS (NL), Ziggo (NL), and others I'm not allowed to name.

Tutorials, lectures, videos at conferences, webinar videos:
https://malotaux.eu/conferences

Several booklets and downloads:
https://malotaux.eu/downloads

Examples of my clients' accomplishments (following my suggestions):
- Electronic product development project (US): saved about half a year (some 20 man-year not wasted), delivered 'unprecedented quality'.
- Space project (NL): saved about one year (some 40 man-year not wasted)
- Software project (PL): deadline in 6 weeks; called it 'mission impossible'. With some coaching delivered successfully in 5 weeks (no overtime!)

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