GOTO Night on Agile and Architecture with Simon Brown

RSVP Here: https://www.meetup.com/GOTO-Nights-Amsterdam/events/235123024/

Venue/Host: Trifork Amsterdam
Costs: Free of charge
Speaker: Simon Brown
Food & refreshments included

Schedule
18:00 Registration & Food
18:30 Short Intro
18:35 Visualise, document and explore your software architecture
19:30 Short break
19:45 Hands-on session with Simon Brown
20:45 Ending with beers

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"Visualise, document and explore your software architecture" by Simon Brown

Abstract

"We value working software over comprehensive documentation" is what the manifesto for agile software development says, with the typical misinterpretation of these few words being "don't write documentation". Of course, that's not what the manifesto says and "no documentation" certainly wasn't the intent. It seems that many software teams have lost the ability to communicate what it is they are building and it's no surprise that these same teams often seem to lack technical leadership, direction and consistency. This session will look at various approaches and tools that you can use to visualise, document and explore your software architecture in order to build a better team.

In the second part of this GOTO Night, you’ll have the opportunity to practice describing a software system using the C4 model, with Simon on-hand to provide guidance where necessary. You can either describe a software system that you are working on, or a small architecture kata that we’ll provide on the night. The goal is to help you create software architecture diagrams that make sense and really do reflect the code.

Bio

Simon is an independent software development consultant specializing in software architecture - specifically technical leadership, communication, and lightweight, pragmatic approaches to software architecture. Simon is the author of "Software Architecture for Developers", a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership, the balance with agility and communicating software architecture with sketches, diagrams, and models. He is also the creator of the C4 software architecture model and the founder of Structurizr, a SaaS product to create web-based software architecture diagrams using code.

Twitter: @simonbrown