Architecture with Agility

2-day training with Kevlin Henney

Coming in May 2025
Warsaw

Kevlin Henney i is an independent consultant, trainer, writer and speaker. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites, including The Register and Java Report. Kevlin is co–author of two volumes in the Pattern–Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

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4199 PLN (949 EUR) + 23% VAT

The first 2 people registered will receive GeeCON 2024 tickets!
The price includes lunch and coffee breaks.

Every system has an architecture, whether accidental or intentional, and regardless of whether it was put in place by a nominated architect or whether it emerged from the decisions and discussions of a team. All too often the focus of what is often described as architecture is centred around a specific set of platform technologies, which forms only one part of the set of concerns an architecture should. And all too often architecture is seen as a separate concern from development process, whereas the two are intertwined — what you build is influenced by how you build it, and vice versa.

The Architecture with Agility course looks at the relationship between Agile processes and good architecture, taking in development process models, architectural styles, requirements techniques, sufficient modelling techniques, design patterns and testing practices. This course includes a number of practical exercises so that attendees can see how the different activities fit together. There is also plenty of opportunity for discussion.

Objectives

Outline the relationship between development process and architecture
Appreciate the roles and failure modes of testing, modelling and technology platforms
Explore different architectural styles and design patterns
Try out concepts and practices in a series of exercises

Audience

Software architects and lead developers looking to both broaden and sharpen their skills in the disciplines touched on by software architecture, not just specific technologies.

Lecture content

Software Architecture

The scope of architecture
Significance of design decisions
Architectural knowledge
Reactive design

Development Process

Value–driven versus risk–driven approaches
Sequential versus iterative and incremental
Visualising progress
Deming's Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycle
Agility
Lean thinking

Architectural Expression

Vision and communication
Architectural viewpoints and properties
Use cases and user stories
Documentation, tests and code
Models and Modelling
System context

Development Practice

Feedback
Exploration and prototyping
Reviews
Testing as learning
Test-driven development (TDD)
Sufficiency versus overdesign
Simplicity and usability

Patterns

Recurring designs
Context dependency
Lone patterns
Combining patterns
Pattern stories and pattern languages
Pattern examples and counterexamples
Architectural Styles

Execution Architecture

Optimisation and pessimisation
Cross–cutting concerns and emergent qualities
Physical considerations
The effect of concurrency and distribution

Dependency Management

Partitioning and organisation
External dependencies
The dependency horizon
Partitioning with respect to uncertainty and change

Refactoring and Re-engineering

Continuous improvement
Kinds of changes
Decremental development
Smells and technical debt
Refactoring, re-engineering and rewriting

Practical content

Exercises

Define scope of software architecture
Explore interaction of interruption of and progress
Identify consequences of intentional and accidental design decisions in attendee projects
List risks and challenges in actual and example projects

Language:
English

Place:
TBD

Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.