Simon Brown

Depending on your viewpoint, Simon is either a software architect who codes or a software developer who understands architecture. When he's not developing software with .NET or Java, Simon can usually be found consulting, coaching or training. Simon has also written books about Java, presented at industry events and has put together a training course called Software architecture for developers, which is based upon his software architecture writing at Coding the Architecture.

Twitter: @simonbrown
E-mail: simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

Recent Blog Entries
1	SATURN 2013 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 ...	17-May-2013
2	Software architecture for developers Google Group 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 ...	17-May-2013
3	Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML 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 ...	16-Apr-2013
4	Mapping software architecture to code 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 ...	08-Apr-2013
5	New essays in the book Just a quick note to say that I've added some new essays to my Software Architecture for Developers book. They are: Software architects should be master builders: this talks about the importance of software architects needing deep technology skills ...	14-Mar-2013
6	Photos and slides from DevWeek 2013 Just a quick note to say thank you to everybody who came along to my workshop and/or talk at DevWeek 2013 last week. Here are links to the slides and photos. Slides from my "Effective architecture sketches" workshop Photos from my "Effective ...	11-Mar-2013
7	Sample software guidebook and sketches Documentation on software projects is often a contentious topic, particularly since the agile manifesto says that we should value working software over comprehensive documentation. My take on lightweight documentation has now been included in my Software ...	26-Feb-2013
8	Software architecture training in the Czech Republic I'm pleased to say that my Software Architecture for Developers training course is coming to the Czech Republic in 2013, in conjunction with Aguarra. There are two public courses currently scheduled for the 21st/22nd February and the 23rd/24th September. ...	22-Jan-2013
9	Software documentation as a guidebook "Working software over comprehensive documentation" is what the Manifesto for Agile Software Development says and it's incredible to see how many software teams have interpreted those five words as "don't write *any* documentation". The underlying ...	15-Jan-2013
10	Digitalisation - complex for all the wrong reasons Here's a short article that I wrote in 2011 for Dansk IT about digitalisation. The TL;DR version is "understand your enterprise architecture". - - - In my role as a software developer, Iʼm often asked to automate existing business processes and ...	11-Jan-2013