Name: Codecamp_Masterclass: Fundamentals of Software Architecture, with Neal Ford
Start: 2024-10-29T10:30:00+03:00
End: 2024-10-30T19:00:00+03:00
Location: Grand Hotel Italia

Codecamp_Masterclass: Fundamentals of Software Architecture, with Neal Ford

The job “Software Architect” was rated as the number one job by a recent CNN survey. Yet no clear path exists for moving from developer to architect. Why? Because software architecture is massive multidisciplinary subject with no clear definition or job description, making it difficult to chart a course for undertaking all of the learning required to become an effective software architect.
This intensive hands-on 2-day training course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and roadmap necessary to become an effective software architect. Being a software architect is much more than just drawing boxes and lines. It’s about thinking like an architect, being a leader, and understanding the architectural elements, patterns, and styles necessary to create effective software architectures. Through interactive course materials and architecture exercises, this course will teach you both the technical aspects of software architecture as well as the soft skills of architecture.
Knowing what architecture pattern best fit your situation is critical to the success of your architecture. In this course you will gain an in-depth understanding of many different architecture styles and patterns, including event-driven, microkernel, space-based, microservices, and service-based architectures. You will learn how each pattern works, the major characteristics of each pattern, and how to use each architecture style to create an effective software architecture that matches your business needs and requirements.
From a soft skills perspective you will learn how important leadership, communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills are to a software architect, as well as some of the techniques for acquiring these skills. You will also learn many other soft skills techniques, such as how to think like an architect, make effective architecture decisions, and how to make development teams effective
Whether you are on the path of developer to architect or already an architect, this course will provide you with the necessary practical hands-on real-world technical and soft-skills knowledge to quickly become an effective software architect.
Course contents
Unit 1: Introduction
Expectations of a software architect
What is Software Architecture?

Unit 2: Architectural Thinking
Technical depth vs. breadth
Architecture vs. design
Hands-on exercises: Distinguishing architecture from design
Understanding tradeoff analysis

Unit 3: Architecture Characteristics
Defining types of characteristics
Translating business needs to architecture characteristics
Cart before the horse anti-pattern
Balancing requirements and characteristics
Hands-on exercises: Identifying characteristics

Unit 4: Component-Based Thinking
Identifying components and services
Component granularity
Component coupling
Component cohesion
Hands-on exercises: Identifying components

Unit 5: Architecture Styles
Architecture style taxonomy
Fallacies of distributed computing
Microservices architecture
Service-based architecture
Event-driven architecture
Microkernel architecture
Space-based architecture
Hands-on exercises: Identifying architecture style(s)

Unit 6: Diagramming Software Architecture
Diagramming techniques
Representational consistency
Diagramming tools
Hands-on exercises: Diagramming architecture

Unit 7: Making Architecture Decisions
Architecture decision anti-patterns
Justifying decisions
Communicating decisions
Using architecture decision records
Hands-on exercises: Documenting architecture decisions

Unit 8: Architecture Soft Skills
Architect personalities
Leading and guiding development teams
Elastic leadership
Team warning signs
Negotiation skills
Hands-on exercises: negotiation scenarios
Core architecture leadership skills

Unit 9: Summary and Wrap-up
Developing your career path
Architecture certification
Architecture resources
Next steps
Target audience and prerequisites
This course is for software developers that want to become software architects and for software architects that want to focus on problems within distributed architectures such as microservices and event-driven systems.