About the Author

Trond Hjorteland is an IT architect and sociotechnical systems practitioner at Capra Consulting, where he helps organisations design themselves for a turbulent world. Drawing on open systems theory and its research tradition, he bridges domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and human-centred organisation design.

He holds a Cand. Scient. in astrophysics from the University of Oslo. His professional background is in large, complex, business-critical IT systems, as a developer, architect, and advisor across telecom, media, and the public sector. Over the past decade, he has become equally focused on the organisational dimension of that work: how structure shapes behaviour, why agile so often disappoints, and what the research actually shows about what works. That has led him to Open Systems Theory and sociotechnical systems design, including working directly with Merrelyn Emery, one of the field’s original pioneers, on a large-scale survey of the IT industry.

He is a board member of STS Kompetansenettverk and a regular speaker at conferences including KanDDDinsky, DDD Europe, NDC Oslo, and Fast Flow Conf. Recordings of many of his talks are available on YouTube.

He writes at linkedin.com/in/trondhjort and on Mastodon at hachyderm.io/@trondhjort. His personal site is trond.hjorteland.com (a 90s relic).