Andrew Harmel-Law on Better Architecture Decision Making for Everyone

Chapter Marks

-00:00:02 Intro & Welcome

-00:03:04 What is software architecture?

-00:07:27 Architecture advice process

-00:10:41 Learning & unlearning in architecture

-00:14:36 Advice process in detail

-00:24:00 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

-00:35:25 Scaling architecture & organization

-00:56:49 Architecture Advice Forums

-01:06:26 AI & Architecture Work

-01:11:58 Naming, Power & Psychological Safety

-01:17:54 Writing, Editing & Book Creation

-01:20:07 Conclusion & Farewell

Show Notes

Books

• Facilitating Software Architecture

• Architecture Metrics

• Team Topologies

• Unlearn

• Domain-Driven Design (Eric Evans, Blue Book)

• Principles of Product Development Flow

• Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5 - On Patterns and Pattern Languages

Articles / Blogposts / Talks / Papers:

• Architecture Decision Records (Michael Nygard)

• Who Needs an Architect? (Martin Fowler)

• Decentralizing the Practice of Architecture at Xapo Bank

• Fred George, Programmer Anarchy

• (Probabably) the earliest ADR paper

• Conway’s Law (Melvin Conway), Original Paper

• Conways’s Law explained by Martin Fowler