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Coding the Architecture- Ikke så smidig prosjektmetode, likevel? January 9, 2012While with Bouvet, in addition to the digi.no interview, Simen Sommerfeldt and I were interviewed by Teknisk Ukeblad about how agile isn't a substitute for basic software engineering, architecture and craftsmanship. Read Ikke så smidig prosjektmetode, likevel?...
- Smidig må kombineres med arkitektur January 8, 2012I spent a fantastic few days with Bouvet in Oslo towards the end of last year where talked about software architecture with some of the team, customers and press. For the Norwegian speakers that haven't seen it, Simen Sommerfeldt and I were interviewed by digi.no about software architecture, agile and "just enough". Read Smidig må kombineres m […]
- Contextualising just enough up front design January 5, 2012In our move away from the waterfall way of building software, it's common for software teams to ask how much up front design they should be doing. Just enough is a good starting point but what exactly does that mean? Read more...
- Features vs Behaviour November 25, 2011I've recently had a bug I raised with a third party software supplier downgraded from high to low importance. No one likes having their bugs downgraded (it probably shows you what a nerd I am by taking this personally) but what surprised me was the reason. The bug was causing lots of misleading errors to be reported but the bug was deemed to not affect […]
- RE: Clean Architecture November 22, 2011Clean Architecture is a follow-up post by Uncle Bob to much of the recent commentary on Clean Code Episode VII - Architecture, Use Cases, and High Level Design, including my own post called The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail. I'll keep this short because I only want to pick up on a couple of points. Uncle Bob says... In the weeks since I start […]
- The Frustrated Architect - video and slides November 16, 2011A really short note to say that the video and slides from my "The Frustrated Architect" talk at Skills Matter yesterday evening are now all available online. Here are the links... Abstract and slides (online view and downloadable PDF) Video I really enjoyed presenting this session but the discussion afterwards in the pub was fantastic. Seems like o […]
- The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail November 6, 2011In my The Frustrated Architect presentation at GOTO Aarhus in October*, I talked about how there are a number of "classic" software design techniques from the pre-agile era that are being used less and less. For example, things like UML, class-responsibility-collaboration cards and component-based design. This is a shame because some of these techn […]
- GOTO Aarhus 2011 and Software Architect 2011 October 6, 2011Conference season is again upon us and I'm speaking at two events over the next couple of weeks. GOTO Aarhus 2011 I'm presenting a session at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, Denmark called The Frustrated Architect that will look at the role of the software architect in today's world of modern software development. I'll be focussing on perc […]
- Is caching an 'Architectural Smell'? October 2, 2011Kent Beck introduced the concept of "Code Smells" while working on Martin Fowler's famous Refactoring book and I think that most people would agree with many of the stinks he identified. Many of us probably also use tools such as checkstyle to automatically identify such things as excessively long methods, dead code etc. To those not familiar […]
- Jitter September 6, 2011On CTA we often talk about non-functional requirements and how this can drive the architecture of a system. Most of these cover issues of desired response time and capacity (latency, throughput, storage etc) but I believe that Jitter is a metric which is either forgotten or unknown to some software engineers – even though it's essential for hardware eng […]
- Ikke så smidig prosjektmetode, likevel? January 9, 2012
