Architecture Boot Camp

What is architecture and why does it matter? A mini case study illustrates key architecture responsibilities and how they are fulfilled.

We’ll discuss Enterprise Architecture and business technology strategy planning practices to give guidance in the selection of technology, combined with a high-level overview of relevant business and IT strategies and technologies in the modern digital world, including an essential understanding of the main trade-offs involved.

Practicing the core skills of architectural decision making and modeling. We also discuss the value and changing role of design documentation in an agile setting, and how to do “just enough documentation”

Understanding, prioritizing and addressing stakeholder needs and how to address them. We’ll practice working with concepts like quality attributes, technical debt and “just enough anticipation”, producing business value at a sustainable rate.

Integrating systems or components leads to important architectural concerns. What strategies address these? How do we model and deliver integration, and what are the traps to avoid?

In this very interactive, practice-oriented module we focus on ways to engage with stakeholders using workshop techniques like a Quality Attribute Workshop or Event Storming.

We will discuss security and privacy as architectural drivers. Which concerns are typically raised, and how are they addressed? What standards should you be familiar with, and how are they applied in practice?

What architecture roles do organizations have? How do the various genres of architecture (Enterprise, Domain, Solution, Software, Infrastructure…) interact and align with business strategy? How do architectures “emerge from self-organizing teams”, and how do autonomous teams function under architecture governance?

Participants take different architecture roles in a real-world end-to-end use case: from roleplaying with stakeholders to producing key design decisions and models, applying all they have learned in previous modules.