9/1/10 Upcoming Software Architecture Workshops

There are still seats open in the Software Architecture Workshop to be taught by Dana Bredemeyer (in English) in Düsseldorf, Germany, on September 13-16, 2010 (hosted by CodeCentric).

The next Software Architecture Workshop in the US will be held in Boston, MA on November 8-11, 2010 (enroll by September 10 to qualify for the early enrollment discount).

You can think of this as learning how to design architecture and in the process constructing a visually rich narrative for your system so that you fully empower the development team (throughout the evolution of the system) to create (and evolve) a system that meets business and customer needs -- a system that stands up to the push and pull of business demands and the need for design excellence (where it matters). Iterative. Incremental. Evolutionary. Participatory (without being overwhelmingly so) and concurrent. 

9/2/10 Uh Oh

I looked in on the SATURN blog, and saw that Mary, bless her, linked to this journal yesterday. Four and a half years into journaling here, and it gets its first "full of great ideas" shout! 

This is early in the month, so if you want to see what Mary means these are the posts from August.

:-)

Given the shout, I'll be self-conscious/bashful for a day or two. This might be a good time to read The Art of Change: Fractal and Emergent.

9/2/10 In Kind

Let me return the favor. New from the SEI:

• Relating Business Goals to Architecturally Significant Requirements for Software Systems, Paul Clements and Len Bass, May 2010

This, also from the SEI, looks very interesting:

• Hard Choices Board Game: "simulation of the software development cycle meant to communicate the concepts of uncertainty, risk, options, and technical debt"

9/2/10 Software Visualization

I just came across UbiGraph. It looks promising.