A system is the sum of the decisions and considerations made in order to meet a wide range of requirements. Unfortunately, poor decisions are often made in many systems because the information required to make the necessary trade-offs is often lacking. This includes, among other things, an understanding of functionality, quality requirements, technology and even previous decisions.

This talk aims to show developers and architects (developing or evaluating) a way to use practices from LASR (lightweight approach for software reviews) and arc42 to uncover and communicate strengths, weaknesses, conflicts and compromises in a playful and easy way (even on bad days with too little sleep or coffee) and to document them in the long term, so that it offers real added value, is not a burden and can be used to make well-founded decisions for targeted and effective improvements with the knowledge gained.

Target audience: esp. software-developers and -architects but also all other people in software development like consultants, project leads, managers or agile people

Given at:
IT-Tage 2024
Novatec Summit 2024