We've been running our software architecture course for a couple of years now and although we've consistently received very positive feedback, we're always looking for ways to improve it. And that's exactly what we've done over the past few weeks.
First of all, the name of the course has been changed to "Software architecture for developers" as it better reflects the intent of the course, which is about broadening people's software development skills and making them more architecturally aware. We want people to better understand how to make design decisions on software projects and be more confident that their choices will work.
The other major change to the course is that the structure now reflects the new organisation of the website, where content is broken down into the following categories:
In addition, more exercises have been introduced and we now have more dedicated content to delve into things like creating software architecture documentation and evaluating software architectures. This content *was* included before through a number of supplementary presentations, but the new structure gives these topics their own focus. You can take a (thumbnail sized) peek at the slides and you can find more detailed information about the course at http://www.softwarearchitecturefordevelopers.com. The next public runs of the course this year are the 8th of December (London) and 14th of December (Paris), but you can see the Skills Matter website for other dates.
Feel free to get in touch (e-mail or Twitter) if you have any questions or would like talk about a private/internal run of the course for your team.
Simon is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture, and the author of Software Architecture for Developers (a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility). He’s also the creator of the C4 software architecture model and the founder of Structurizr, which is a collection of open source and commercial tooling to help software teams visualise, document and explore their software architecture.
You can find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrown ... see simonbrown.je for information about his speaking schedule, videos from past conferences and software architecture training.