Architecture work can be tough: juggling tech stacks, new tools, facilitating decisions, working with different stakeholders & even some organisational development. Herding cats is easier, isn’t it?

With Architecture in ACTion, I introduce you to decades of practical science on the Human Mind. We’ll dig into Psychological Flexibility and ACT - concepts that are (still) rarely used in biz but have huge impact at work!

Because: Deep tech expertise, domain navigation *and* change skills is a lot!

You'll leave this session with:

• practical, low-tech tools for effective operational work as architects
• a reflection canvas for laser-focussed strategic work as tech leaders
• digestible science bits on Human Mind and Behaviour
• (hopefully!) a desire to learn more about your “thinking machine”

Target Audience: Software Architects, (Technical) Leaders, curious humans in IT who work with other humans (in IT)
Prerequisites: Some work/project experience and openness for new ways of thinking (and potentially behaviour)
Level: Basic

Code that is well-designed and easy to understand is cheaper to extend and modify - so you can deliver more value, sooner. Many organizations struggle with older codebases that use outdated designs and have too much cruft.

I found that the technical coaching I was doing was addressing those kinds of issues successfully, but it was slow to scale up to large projects where there are tens of teams of developers working on different parts of the same codebase.

Recently I’ve been using a complementary approach. The basic idea is regular, short interactive training for teams of developers, led by a peer. They use high quality materials and content I’ve designed. In this talk I will explain what I’ve found and how you could adapt my ideas and materials for your situation.

Target Audience: Tech lead, senior dev, architect
Prerequisites: Experience writing code in a development team (even if it was a while ago)
Level: Advanced