I ran a half-day workshop yesterday at the Software Architecture Summit in Berlin, where we crowdsourced the answers to a number of questions, focussed around why some agile software teams don't think about architecture and how we can change this ...

Most of the roles that we associate with software development teams are relatively well understood ... developers, testers, ScrumMasters, Product Owners, business analysts, project managers, etc. The software architecture role? Not so much. I regularly ...

I attended the SATURN 2013 conference in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, which is an annual practitioner conference about software architecture, organised by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University. The conference is in ...

A number of people have recently asked me whether there was somewhere they could chat about software architecture after attending my Software architecture for developers training course, so I've created a Google Group. If you want to discuss software ...

If you're working in an agile software development team at the moment, take a look around at your environment. Whether it's physical or virtual, there's likely to be a story wall or Kanban board visualising the work yet to be started, in progress and ...

One of the things I'm currently doing with a number of software teams is teaching them how to draw pictures. As an industry we've got really good at visualising the way that we work using things like Kanban boards and story walls, but we've forgotten how ...