Agile Architecture Classes

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You will learn how architecture evolves and what is the best way to handle this, which tasks within an Agile organization belong to responsibility of the architect and how the architect can fulfill them (including how to handle outsourcing partners).

Agile Architecture

Programme and Course Overview: 

Agile system development is here to stay. More and more businesses start using Agile as a methodology and the results are very positive. But adopting Agile is not a task to be taken lightly. From experience, Xebia knows that organizations face a number of challenges, like:

  • It is difficult for the business to put together a good product backlog.
  • Software is developed, but does not seem to go live.
  • Teams depend on each others’ results.
  • Software is not refactored, therefore the architectural debt increases.
  • There is not enough focus on the non-functional requirements.
  • Architectural pictures differ a great deal from reality.

These challenges are often caused by the way the architectural role is organized. In this training we teach architects working in an Agile environment how to fill in their role, and face these challenges. At the end of this training the attendee can, as an architect, add value to Agile system development.
During this course the attendee will learn how architecture evolves and what is the best way to handle this, which tasks within an Agile organization belong to responsibility of the architect and how the architect can fulfill them (including how to handle outsourcing partners). He or she will also learn how to apply methods and techniques that become more important, like landscape photo’s, kanban applications architecture, simple architectures, just enough architecture, architectural spikes and EVO.  And which soft skills have to be trained to work more effectively, like creating support, selling architecture and the communication with various stakeholders.
Besides theory and a see through of the covering framework, this course will mostly consist of exercises, cases and other practical methods.

Target Group & Prerequisites: 

Enterprise architects, information architects, solution architects, lead developers, information analysts, and any person working on the line of business and IT who works (or will be working) in an organization that makes use of Agile development methods.

Gero Vermaas

Gero Vermaas is part of Xebia's IT Architects business unit and is one of the leading members of Xebia's Lean Architecture initiative. He is actively promoting Xebia's Lean Architecture vision by speaking at seminars. Gero is a hands-on architect that aims to work in close cooperation with all stakeholders. In his assignments as an IT Architect he makes sure that both functional requirements and non functional requirements are addressed.
Where relevant he promotes the use of open standards. Gero contributed to telecommunication standards via the Java Community Process and has applied other telecommunication standards like TM Forums SID in projects. Gero has an affinity with the telecommunications sector and has successfully completed many assignments at different operators. The assignments varied from practically applying telecommunication standards to architecture and design of OSS systems (order managements, trouble ticketing, inventory) on one end, and a role as implementation manager for the OSS chain of an operator on the other end of the spectrum. In the latter role he coordinated the go-live of a large number of systems.

Herbert Schuurmans

Herbert Schuurmans joined Xebia as a Sr. Consultant for the unit IT Architects.
Herbert has been active in IT since 1997. He started as a Java software developer for an international ERP solution provider. He then moved to consultancy andhas worked for several (international) companies, both profit and governemental. Herbert has held several roles such as developer, technical team lead, performance tester and architect.
Herbert’s technical interests are divers, from user interfaces to performance and security. Recently he got interested in non technical aspects like change management, supporting the process of change in an organization. The common goal in all his work has been and still is to make the end user happy.

Sander van den Berg

Sander van den Berg has been active in IT since 1999.
He has worked as a software developer for several defense related companies, where he mainly worked on MDA/MDD solutions. Sander van den Berg joined Xebia in 2010 as a Senior Consultant for the unit IT Architects, where he is responsible for the Xebia Lean Architecture approach.
Besides architecture, Sander is very interested in language design. He is active in several functional programming communities. He likes elegant solutions to hard problems, preferring Haskell as a means to express them. Being an advocate for DSL’s, he also has a keen interest in Clojure.

Date Trainer(s) Place
8 Mar 2012
Gero Vermaas
Herbert Schuurmans
Sander van den Berg
 Hilversum Read more..
29 Nov 2012
Gero Vermaas
Herbert Schuurmans
Sander van den Berg
 Hilversum Read more..