Book Club with Michael Keeling: Design It! Whole Team Software Design

Abstract
Designing software systems has always been challenging. The demand for greater business agility, faster cycle times, and bigger returns on investment has only increased the challenges software architects face. It’s often more than a single person can reasonably handle. In my book, Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect, I described the essential knowledge and a set of foundational skills necessary to level up a team’s software design practice. Perhaps you’ve noticed something similar as I have – when the whole team is able to actively contribute to the design of a software system, things seem to go just a little bit smoother, hard problems become just a little less risky. In this session, we’ll briefly review the main points from Design It!, and explore some new ideas about growing teams of software designers. I’d love it if most of our time is spent on questions and discussion.

About the Author
Michael Keeling is a software engineer at Kiavi and the author of Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect. Prior to Kiavi, he worked at IBM on the Watson Discovery Service and has experience with a variety of software systems including service-oriented architectures, enterprise search systems, and even combat systems. Michael is an award-winning speaker and regularly participates in the architecture and agile communities. He holds a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mell.

About the Organizer
Apiumhub is a software development hub that builds goal-driven working software. Apiumhub helps software engineers enjoy their work by improving their estimation, development, QA, automation, and delivery practices. Also, Apiumhub is the organizer of Global Software Architecture Summit.

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