Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions
The role of the software architect is changing. As systems grow more complex and the interactions with the teams that build, operate, and evolve them expand, traditional architects can no longer be everywhere at once. There’s simply too much architecture work to handle, and the current approach is reaching its limits.
But there’s a better way. In this book, author Andrew Harmel-Law explores how architects and development teams can work together to design and refine systems more effectively. You’ll discover practical techniques to foster a collaborative mindset, empowering everyone to contribute to architecture and create systems that are better than ever before.
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Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions
Sonya Natanzon and Andrew Harmel-Law explore key concepts from Andrew ’s book, fostering decentralized sociotechnical systems, emphasizing the importance of embracing imperfection in decision-making, and combating cognitive biases like the framing effect. They highlight the shift to prioritizing learning, adaptability, and small, fast iterations in socio-technical systems. Andrew Harmel-Law discusses psychological safety as vital for empowering teams to innovate while maintaining accountability, advocating for experimentation and collective ownership of evolving codebases. Together, they underline the importance of balancing creativity and structure to build resilient, adaptive systems that thrive in complexity.
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