Architectural Kata with the C4 model

Ciao Crafters,

for the next meetup, we're going to try something new, a virtual architectural kata. We want to thank Nelis and Matteo for making this possible, it's gonna be fun 😎!!!

⚡ Organize this activity remotely asks for extra preparation and discipline. You will receive a mail with all the practical information to connect two days before the event starts. Please read the prerequisites below carefully and follow the instructions! Please come 10 minutes before so we can start on time. ⚡

🔻Prerequisites 🔻:
✉️ Contact Mario Pio Gioiosa (organizer) via a personal message on meetup to provide your e-mail address
📖 Read the preparation document (via e-mail two days before the event)
🔎 Can use Zoom.us (preferably the desktop client)
✏️ Can use Mural (via web browser)
🎧 Make sure that you have an excellent place to connect to the meetup. Ideally, have a silent room, headset with microphone, webcam, good internet connection.
❌ If you signup and then you cannot make it, that's totally fine but let us know by unsubscribing to the meetup

🗓️Preliminary Agenda 🗓️:
18.00: Call opens.
18.15: Introduction to architectural katas and C4
18.30: Divide into groups in breakout rooms + do kata
19.20: Pitch results to other groups
19.40: Reflect on what we learned
20.00: Bit of backup time and extraction of Jetbrain license
20.30: You should be ready for dinner if you survived till here!

DESCRIPTION
With the rise of agile, architecture has disappeared a bit in the background or co-existed in an ivory tower (boring documents or powerpoints that everyone ignores). Yet, having a good architecture can make or break your product. So it becomes key that your teams can leverage all the knowledge and learn how to discuss architecture!

The goal of this session is to let participants taste two team-oriented and straightforward techniques that can help self-organizing teams to work on an architecture: Architectural Katas as a way to practice architecture design and the C4 to describe an architecture solution. Both techniques are simple and understandable by anyone with an affinity to development, but often not well known or practiced.

The Architectural Katas were born out of the desire to practice architecting. Inspired by the idea of Dave Thomas using the concept of Code Kata, Ted Neward came up with the idea of running Code katas at a higher level, and the concept of Architectural Katas was born.

Simon Brown created the C4 model as a way to help software development teams to discuss and describe the static structure of their software architecture. It’s a way to create maps of your code, at various levels of detail, in the same way, you would use something like Google Maps to zoom in, and out of an area you are interested in.

In this meetup, we are going to fuse both techniques and do an architectural kata with the C4 model.

NELIS
Software crafter with a profound interest in defining environments where teams can thrive to build great product.

• Experience with agile transformations, software architecture and technical excellence in both SME and corporate settings.
• Focus on delivering results. Agile in itself is not a goal, but Agile principles help to deliver value in rapidly changing environments.
• Experiences in assessing and setting up technical excellence to deliver quality products.
• Worked with companies in the following domains: energy, logistics and automation, automated warehouse systems, tank terminals, public transport, municipalities and government administration, security, banking.

MATTEO
Matteo is a Software Craftsman and a Technical Coach. eXtreme Programming practitioner and TDD lover, He is very passionate about creating well crafted software that delivers high value to the customer.

He is addicted to conferences and meetups. He loves to share knowledge with people in order to improve himself and hopefully inspire other people.