Architecture with Agility with Kevlin Henney

Masterclass Topics:

•  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