STRIKING THE BALANCE BETWEEN EMERGENCE AND INTENTIONALITY

The role of the Architect and the emerging (or intentional?!) Architecture in the Agile world are never-ending subjects for debate. Nevertheless, if you try to develop a large, complex system in an Agile way, or an ever-evolving system, in sustainable way, and not incur a ton of technical debt, you need Agile / Lean architecture.

This course is designed on the foundation of Agile and Lean principles to: describe the role of Agile Architects and values of Agile Architecture; explain Agile Architecture practices for both small projects and complex programs; teach participants to assess and cater for architectural and technical debt; provide advice on how to evolve from emergent to intentional architecture; foster an engineering culture of getting things done with the right speed and without compromising on quality; identify and manage waste; and maintain a continuously testable quality attributes.

This training can be delivered as 1, 2 or 3 full-day sessions (the longer the course, the more hands-on practical exercises and case studies will the participants be able to tackle).

INTENDED AUDIENCE

The intended audience for this training consists of program managers, software architects, developers, team leaders or any cross-functional team working in agile ways.

OUTLINE

1. The case for Agile Architecture
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

2. Agile Architecture practices for small projects
Functional and technical spikes
Experimenting on branches
Growing a framework to reduce repetitive or tedious programming
Understanding problem buckets

3. Agile Architecture practices for large projects
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 Managing architectural tasks

4. How to manage risks
Wayfinding
Prototyping

5. Architecture and Technical Debt
Technical Debt
Architecture Debt
Measuring Debt
The Consequences of Ongoing Debt
Debt Reduction Strategies

6. Testing architecture qualities
Qualities and Architecture
Writing Quality Scenarios
Availability, Modifiability, Performance, Security, Usability…

7. Keeping architecture real, system views
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

ABOUT THE TRAINER

Florin Cardasim is a software architect and Agile coach. Beyond his technical skills, he gained a broad experience as a trainer for companies and speaker in conferences. Florin is passionate by technology and by working with people to construct amazing things; focused on client and team, quality and on-time delivery while carefully looking to keep inside the fun of the software development. He is fortunate to be part of the Microsoft Regional Director program, a group of technology experts recognized by Microsoft for their passion about sharing their knowledge with the community. Worldwide, there are less than 150 RDs.