SessionOne035

Change Architecting: Setting the Essential Unchanging Nature of the Way a System Changes
BobKing, NynkeFokma

Nature presents architectural actions for us to aspire to. An individual human is physically remade many times in his or her life, all the while growing. Species adapt into a better fit with their environment by just being the best they can be. Such examples are too numerous to list and too wondrous to comprehend - and all with such a light explicit central touch.

Is "doing architecture" a prospective activity? Is it to organize the system before the system is "placed in concrete"? Or, can it be to set the essential, unchanging nature of the way a system changes? Which system should be the focus of our efforts? How does this change our beliefs about what we do as architects? Can Rocky save Bullwinkle from the nasty Boris Badenof? Tune in to this session during the AYE Conference for answers to these questions and more...

Learning Objectives
After attending this session, software architects will:

have more fun doing their job (Putting the fun back into architecting),
have more energy for their work (Putting the chi back in ArCHItecting),
be creative in trading off pressures and constraints,
get stakeholders more involved,
build more effective and healthy product development communities,
improve technology transfer capabilities in the organization,
help the organization save time and money.

As I think about this session and our starting right session (SessionOne014), I have some difficulty in keeping them separate. When thinking about them, I see the starting right session as more general than the architecture session. So maybe the starting right session is a context setter for the architecture session. We must first establish a strong general platform from which a project starts. If this does not exist, no amount of software architecture can save the project. When this does exist, software architecture choices become more clear. I dunno, sorta rambling as I try to make sense of the relationship between the two sessions.

PicsSessionOne035 - the first half of the session gave three products built during a simulation and information gathered from the simulation. ChaosSessionOne035 - The second half of the session we tried to (re)create our simulation realities in Sam Kaners facilitation architecture, and verified it's usefulness as a first approximation for "adding the human architecture".

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