Workshop Overview

• The case for Agile Architecture

  4 hours

  The need for Agility; Understand your business!; Lean, Agile and Craftmanship Principles; Boundaries between requirements, architecture, and detailed design & implementation; The architectural landscape; Understanding your stakeholders; What do architects do?; Values important to Agile Architects;

• Agile Architecture practices

  4 hours

  Functional and technical spikes; Experimenting; Understanding problem buckets; Conway’s law; Dealing with decisions. The “most” responsible moment; Programs and product roadmaps; Defining and using Landing Zones; Set based design; Architecture risk reduction backlog;

• Architecture and Technical Debt

  4 hours

  Technical Debt; Architecture Debt; Measuring Debt; The Consequences of Ongoing Debt; Debt Reduction Strategies;

• Testing architecture qualities

  4 hours

  Qualities and Architecture; Writing Quality Scenarios; Availability, Modifiability, Performance, Security, Usability;

• Keeping architecture real, explaining system views

  4 hours

  Functional/logical view; The development/structural view; Concurrency/process/runtime/thread view; The physical/deployment/install view; The operational view; The information view; Explaining and documenting the architecture;