The Social Side of Your Architecture

We're happy to invite you to our first GOTO Night after the summer break at the Trifork office in the heart of Copenhagen.

We'll dive into the social side of architecture with Adam Tornhill, a GOTO Copenhagen 2019 speaker. Adam will help us take a behavioral view of code combined with insights from social psychology to measure aspects of software development that we haven't been able to capture before.

AGENDA

• 17.30: Doors open
• 17.45: Welcome by GOTO
• 18.00: “Meet the Social Side of Your Architecture” by Adam Tornhill
• 19.00: Food and drinks + network
• 20.00: Thanks words

More about the talk:

Software projects often mistake organizational problems for technical issues and treat the symptoms instead of the root cause. The main reason is that the organization that builds the system is invisible in our code. From code alone, we cannot tell if a module is a productivity bottleneck for five different teams, or whether our microservice boundaries support the way our codebase evolves or not. This session closes that gap by taking a behavioral view of code combined with insights from social psychology to measure aspects of software development that we haven't been able to capture before. You learn how this information lets you detect modules with excess coordination needs, measure how well your architecture supports your organization, as well as why Conway's law is an oversimplification. To make it specific, each point is illustrated with a case study from a real-world codebase.

More about Adam:

Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He's the founder of Empear where he designs tools for software analysis. He's also the author of Software Design X-Rays, the best selling Your Code as a Crime Scene, Lisp for the Web, and Patterns in C.