Jacqui Read and Andrey Fadeyev

****A big thank you to our sponsors numi for arranging this event. numi are a trusted talent and hiring partner to DDD London, and specialise in helping companies with growth across technology. If you're looking to hire experts in DDD, or looking for a new job in an environment where DDD is adopted, please speak to one of the numi team.

A second thank you to Currency cloud , who have kindly agreed to host the event on the evening at Visa's amazing offices. More from our hosts on the evening with Currency Cloud's very own Engineering Manager Andrey Fadeyev discussing how to Evaluate Large-Scale Structures***

The Power of Soft Skills in Tech
Technical professionals love to learn about tech, whether at a conference, learning online, or reading a book. But technical skills only take you so far in your career and towards your goals - you will need a broad array of soft skills to get the best from those around you, as well as maximise your influence.

Small changes in the way you work can produce big results. Discover communication soft skills aimed specifically at technical audiences, which you can easily integrate into your existing workflows for quick and transformative results.

Jacqui will take you on a whistle-stop tour of patterns and techniques to improve your visual, verbal, non-verbal, written, knowledge, and remote communication skills, an easily digestible teaser of content from her new book Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects.

Those attending will have the opportunity to win a copy of the book and pick up free access to O'Reilly online for 30 days.

Jacqui Read
Jacqui Read is an internationally recognised software and enterprise architect with over 13 years of industry experience, and author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects. She is founder of Read the Architecture, an innovation hub providing architecture consultancy and training services.

She specialises in assisting businesses, large and small, to create and enhance architecture practices, construct evolutionary architectures, and untangle and extract value from data and knowledge. Alongside consulting, Jacqui teaches public and private workshops and speaks at international conferences on topics such as architecture decisions, technical communication, and architecture practices. She also runs software architecture katas for teams and companies.

Her professional interests include collaborative modelling, knowledge management, DDD, and sociotechnical architecture. Outside of work she enjoys gardening and attempting to strum her ukulele and sing at the same time.

Her website is https://jacquiread.com

Andrey Fadeyev (Currencycloud) - Evaluating Large-Scale Structures:

Have you ever delved into large-scale structures and felt like you need more guidance? Are you at the stage when you are looking for adding a structure to your projects and uncertain whether the decision is correct, and all options are evaluated. We’ve all been there. The “Large-Scale Structure” chapter from Eric Evans’ “blue book” is a great starting point, but finding more information can be tough for software engineers and architects. The world of DDD in regards of large-scale structures often seems mysterious due to scarcity of research materials.

This talk is here to shed light on that question. We will look into a subset of large-scale structures like system metaphors, responsibility layers, knowledge levels, pluggable component frameworks, and capability mapping. We will provide you a set of evaluation questions that act as thinking patterns. These questions will help you evaluate and adapt these structures to your unique context. Hopefully, it will demystify the subject of large-scale structures for you.