Architecture with Agility

A BCS Professional Awareness Course

Thursday 4th June, 09:00 - 17:00.

Trainer: Kevlin Henney.

Edinburgh Training & Conference Centre , 16 St Mary Street Edinburgh , EH1 1SU.

Cost: £168 for BCS members, £198 for others (both including VAT).

The course is one of a series of Professional Current Awareness Courses aimed at providing greater access to developing subjects for IT professionals.

Registration via the BCS on-line booking system - see "Booking" at the bottom of this page.

Course Overview

The word Agile has passed into the wider buzzwordsphere familiar to all in development. But that does not mean its concepts, culture, associated processes and practices or implications are as widely understood. Agile development involves more than a passing familiarity with Scrum terminology, more than the occasional use of an automated testing framework and more than simply rebranding either a chaotic or bureaucratic in-house process to proclaim "We're Agile!"

Architecture is often placed falsely in conflict with Agile approaches, and vice versa. Architecture is not something that is completed and set in stone in a design phase, caught and trapped in a document, administered and policed by a select few. Architecture defines the significant decisions that characterise a system, decisions that are discovered and made at different times during the process of development, and by different roles.

This one-day session will take a look at the implications and interactions between software architecture and agility, highlighting the amicable and necessary relationship between the two.

About the presenter

Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites, including Better Software, The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal. Kevlin is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know site and book.

Booking

Booking is via the BCS on-line reservation system.

Cost is £168 for BCS members, £198 for others, both including VAT at 20%.

Closing date for bookings is 3rd June. No refunds after 28th May..

For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.