Agile Architecture Workshop

• Understand what agile architecture is (and is not)
• Explore characteristics of an agile architecture role
• Learn techniques for planning and bounding architecting activities
• Communicate architecture to diverse audiences: The basics of communicating architecture goals and vision
• Recognize and manage architectural debt

Two commonly heard phrases in agile development are “Let your architecture emerge” and “Always implement what you actually need, never what you think you might need.” However, complex software systems have lots of moving parts, dependencies, challenges, and unknowns. Counting on the software architecture to properly evolve without any planning or design investigations can be risky. On agile projects, software architecture activities should not be pie-in-the-sky experiments that slow down the delivery of working code. Yet producing working code based on a shaky architecture isn’t sustainable either.

Effectively Define and Refine Software Architecture
Johanna Rothman and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock provide a hands-on experience applying practices and techniques for effectively defining (and refining) software architecture that support agile values. They focus on methods for balancing software architecture activities with other ongoing development efforts. Learn tactics for creating just enough architecture at the most opportune time.

Who Should Attend?
Enterprise architects, product architects, technical architects, program managers, testers, developers, team leaders, or any interdisciplinary product or cross-functional team working in an agile way.