Vertical Slice Architecture: Effective Guardrails for AI Development

Learn how Vertical Slice Architecture and Domain-Driven Design can give AI-assisted software development clearer, more effective architectural guardrails. This practical online session takes place on Thursday 20 August 2026, from 12:15 to 13:00 CEST, with Jimmy Bogard presenting in English. AI coding tools can generate software quickly, but development teams still need to decide where that code belongs, how features should be organised, and which boundaries will keep a system understandable as it grows. Hosted by Tech Excellence, this session explores how structuring software around business change, use cases and domain boundaries can help both humans and AI implement changes with better context. ## What the session will cover Jimmy Bogard will introduce Vertical Slice Architecture as a way to organise software around business capabilities rather than conventional technical layers. He will also explain where Domain-Driven Design becomes valuable as rules, workflows and boundaries grow more important,and where it may introduce unnecessary overhead. The discussion will address practical questions including: - Why layered architectures can become harder to change over time - What it means to organise features as vertical slices - How to keep straightforward features simple while introducing stronger boundaries where needed - How clearer architecture can guide AI-generated changes and prevent accidental design - How teams can evolve existing systems without turning each change into a rewrite - How to structure features, domain logic and tests so software remains easier to understand and extend ## Who should attend? This event is designed for software engineers, tech leads, software architects, engineering managers, and teams responsible for business-critical software. It is particularly relevant to organisations already using or evaluating AI coding tools and seeking a more deliberate way to support ongoing change. This is not a generic AI productivity demonstration, framework walkthrough or purely theoretical architecture lecture. The emphasis is firmly on practical architectural decisions that help software remain maintainable as AI becomes part of everyday development. ## Format and access… Register for this event