Evelyn van Kelle is a change management consultant working in technical environments, where she helps organizations design and sustain sociotechnical systems. With her experience, she focuses on how human behavior and social dynamics shape the way technology is built and adopted. Evelyn is a strategic thinker who values curiosity and questions over quick answers. She supports organizations in navigating change and creating environments where desired behaviors can thrive. She is also the co-author of Collaborative Software Design (Manning Publications). Next to this, she loves food, cooking, and everything that comes with that.
Every significant software design choice—whether you’re designing a bounded context, deciding on the system boundary, settling on an architectural style, selecting a complex system integration approach, and even evaluating a block of AI-generated code—has a moment where one path just feels right. But what if that powerful 'gut feeling' is actually a cognitive bias in disguise?The human mind is a p...