Recently I attended Venkat's seminar on "Towards evolutionary design". Thanks to ASCI and Binary Essentials for sponsoring this event. The event was a huge success and a lot of people attended the event inspite of heavy rains.
Venkat, is a proven software architect and an Agile expert. One can easily feel the passion when he speaks about the evolutionary design and architecture. Here is the summary of key points that I learnt from the seminar
1. Design can be of two types, strategic (high level design, modeling, etc) and tactical design (TDD, Refactoring, etc)
2. He recommended the audience to read the two good articles, "Who needs an architect" and "Is design dead ?" both by Martin Fowler. Another good book he recommended us to read was the Humane Interface by Jef Raskin
4. He explained Kent Beck's Triangulation concept very well. He mentioned that frameworks should be selected based on the need rather than emotions, and he wanted the development team to avoid "Resume Driven Development(RDD)" :-)
5. He encouraged the architect to apply the "Tracer bullet" concepts while architecting solutions. That is, create a prototype first and use this as the tracer to create a robust architecture.
There were many more take aways from this seminar and I would let his presentation speak about the rest.
1 comment:
Very good summary
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