The work on our software systems is becoming increasingly complex. In particular, the explicit design and communication of the software architecture are crucial for designing flexible, maintainable and scalable systems. Together, we will look at various tried-and-tested practices to make architecture work more dynamic and to efficiently integrate architecture design into projects using agile approaches.

We will discuss ideas for basic architecture work (e.g. visualizing architecture requirements in the form of scenarios and technical debt), making decisions (e.g. last responsible moment and just enough architecture ahead), collaboration and interaction (e.g. architecture communities and katas) and reflection (testing architecture goals). You can easily transfer many of these process patterns and best practices to your own projects.