Confessions of an Enterprise Architect • Scott Shaw • YOW! 2016

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2016. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Scott Shaw - Head of Technology at Thoughtworks @thoughtworks RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-shaw-b4003a4 ABSTRACT Having worked in and around the software development business for many years, gaining a certain amount of grey hair and experience along the way, I’m often asked to help out teams struggling under the sometimes onerous and dogmatic restrictions of corporate IT. Years of these engagements led to a sort of messianic complex; Me–righteous defender of software craft– locked in epic struggle with evil strictures of enterprise architecture. But lately the tables have turned. Faced with challenges of business reality, regulatory compliance, and organisational complexity, I found myself committing some of the same acts I might have once condemned. This talk gives me an opportunity to confess some of those behaviours, explain why they’re sometimes necessary in a large and complex corporate environment and offer some ways they might be done differently. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • https://amzn.to/2QWAmkl George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3uZzVo0 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SoftwareArchitecture #DevOps #Microservices #Monolith #ModularMonolith #Complexity #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #ScottShaw #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1