18:30 Wed 2 July 2025, BCS London & online: A Commune in the Ivory Tower?
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Immo Hüneke
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SPA-403: A Commune in the Ivory Tower? A New Approach to Architecture
Speaker: Andrew Harmel-Law, Thoughtworks Tech Principal
When: Wednesday 2nd July 2025, 18:00 for 18:30 - 20:00 BST
Where: BCS London, 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP and also online
Price: Free
Booking Link: https://2july2025spa.eventbrite.co.uk/
Your confirmation email will provide the next step to enable you to access the webinar. 48 hours and 1 hour prior to the event reminder emails will be sent to those registered, with the non-transferable URL needed to gain access. The session will be recorded. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please keep your microphone muted.
AGENDA
* 6:00pm - networking in BCS London over refreshments
* 6:30pm - presentation begins, questions and answers either ad hoc or at the end
* 8:00pm - networking in BCS London (pizza & refreshments)
* 8:45pm at the latest: everyone off the premises - adjourn to The Old Doctor Butler's Head to continue discussion if desired
SYNOPSIS
I'm an architect, and I think a lot about architecture. Mostly I think about how irrelevant architecture is if it doesn't get shipped to production.
I worry a lot too. I worry about how to help all the teams I'm supposed to be helping, without slowing them down, getting in their way, or making their lives harder rather than easier.
Traditional (i.e. hands-off, blessed-few) approaches to architecture rarely (if ever) work. But in the world of microservices, autonomous teams, and continuous delivery, architecture is more important than ever.
Is there an alternative?
This session will introduce you to a mindset and an associated set of practices which do away with the traditional idea of "Architects" while bringing the practice of "Architecture" to the fore.
I’ll explain how everyone can become an architect - without reducing everything to chaos (though there might well be a healthy dose of anarchy).
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
A Tech Principal at Thoughtworks, Andrew specializes in domain-driven design, org design, software and systems architecture, agile delivery, build tools and automation.
Andrew is also an author and trainer for O'Reilly. They've written one book about facilitating software architecture and one chapter about implementing the Accelerate/DORA four key metrics.
They also run regular online training sessions in Domain-Driven Design (First Steps) and Architecture Decision Making by Example. Experienced across the software development lifecycle and in many sectors, what motivates them is the humane delivery and sustainable evolution of large-scale software solutions that fulfil complex user needs.
They understand that people, architecture, process and tooling all have key roles to play in achieving this. Andrew has been involved with OSS to a greater or lesser extent since their career began; as a user, contributor, expert group member, or paid advocate - most notably as one of the Jenkins JobDSL originators.
Andrew enjoys sharing their experience as much as possible. This sharing is not only seen in their formal consulting engagements and writing, but also informally through mentoring, blog posts, conferences (keynoting, speaking and organising), and open-sourcing their code.
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BCS SPA Home Page - http://bcs-spa.org/
Meetings Schedules
London - http://bcs-spa.org/index.php?page=london-meeting-programme
Cambridge - see http://http://softwareast.ning.com/events
Presentation materials from previous talks are available from the BCS SPA resources site: http://bcs-spa.org/resources.html
Also see YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-
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SPA London Meetings Programme Organiser - Immo Huneke, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. [Im...@Huneke.Co.UK]
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Forthcoming meetings: We're looking for volunteers to present or lead workshops on topics of interest to software practitioners. Please come forward with suggestions!
6 August 2025: no meeting
3 September 2025: tbd
1 October 2025: Sylvain Viguier of Graphcore with an AI coding demo related to people empowerment, open culture and product mindset
==================================================
SPA-403: A Commune in the Ivory Tower? A New Approach to Architecture
Speaker: Andrew Harmel-Law, Thoughtworks Tech Principal
When: Wednesday 2nd July 2025, 18:00 for 18:30 - 20:00 BST
Where: BCS London, 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP and also online
Price: Free
Booking Link: https://2july2025spa.eventbrite.co.uk/
Your confirmation email will provide the next step to enable you to access the webinar. 48 hours and 1 hour prior to the event reminder emails will be sent to those registered, with the non-transferable URL needed to gain access. The session will be recorded. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please keep your microphone muted.
AGENDA
* 6:00pm - networking in BCS London over refreshments
* 6:30pm - presentation begins, questions and answers either ad hoc or at the end
* 8:00pm - networking in BCS London (pizza & refreshments)
* 8:45pm at the latest: everyone off the premises - adjourn to The Old Doctor Butler's Head to continue discussion if desired
SYNOPSIS
I'm an architect, and I think a lot about architecture. Mostly I think about how irrelevant architecture is if it doesn't get shipped to production.
I worry a lot too. I worry about how to help all the teams I'm supposed to be helping, without slowing them down, getting in their way, or making their lives harder rather than easier.
Traditional (i.e. hands-off, blessed-few) approaches to architecture rarely (if ever) work. But in the world of microservices, autonomous teams, and continuous delivery, architecture is more important than ever.
Is there an alternative?
This session will introduce you to a mindset and an associated set of practices which do away with the traditional idea of "Architects" while bringing the practice of "Architecture" to the fore.
I’ll explain how everyone can become an architect - without reducing everything to chaos (though there might well be a healthy dose of anarchy).
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
A Tech Principal at Thoughtworks, Andrew specializes in domain-driven design, org design, software and systems architecture, agile delivery, build tools and automation.
Andrew is also an author and trainer for O'Reilly. They've written one book about facilitating software architecture and one chapter about implementing the Accelerate/DORA four key metrics.
They also run regular online training sessions in Domain-Driven Design (First Steps) and Architecture Decision Making by Example. Experienced across the software development lifecycle and in many sectors, what motivates them is the humane delivery and sustainable evolution of large-scale software solutions that fulfil complex user needs.
They understand that people, architecture, process and tooling all have key roles to play in achieving this. Andrew has been involved with OSS to a greater or lesser extent since their career began; as a user, contributor, expert group member, or paid advocate - most notably as one of the Jenkins JobDSL originators.
Andrew enjoys sharing their experience as much as possible. This sharing is not only seen in their formal consulting engagements and writing, but also informally through mentoring, blog posts, conferences (keynoting, speaking and organising), and open-sourcing their code.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BCS SPA Home Page - http://bcs-spa.org/
Meetings Schedules
London - http://bcs-spa.org/index.php?page=london-meeting-programme
Cambridge - see http://http://softwareast.ning.com/events
Presentation materials from previous talks are available from the BCS SPA resources site: http://bcs-spa.org/resources.html
Also see YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-
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SPA London Meetings Programme Organiser - Immo Huneke, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. [Im...@Huneke.Co.UK]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forthcoming meetings: We're looking for volunteers to present or lead workshops on topics of interest to software practitioners. Please come forward with suggestions!
6 August 2025: no meeting
3 September 2025: tbd
1 October 2025: Sylvain Viguier of Graphcore with an AI coding demo related to people empowerment, open culture and product mindset
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