Early Bird ends 2/17.... Architecture Workshops by Mark Richards is coming to Austin on March 20-24th (JUG Discount)

[Jay Zimmerman]

Don’t Miss Out on Two Exceptional Architecture-centric workshop offerings by Mark Richards coming to Austin!

Training Offering #1:  Software Architecture Workshop - Austin

Dates:  March 20-22, 2017

Location: Austin Marriott South

URL: https://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/n/training/2017/03/20/software_architecture_training

Instructor: Mark Richards

Early Bird Rate:  $2,750 thru 2/17, after $3,000

JUG Discount:  Use code: usergroup100 for a $100 off

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Training Offering #2:  Enterprise Architecture Workshop - Austin

Dates:  March 23-24, 2017

Location: Austin Marriott South

URL: https://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/n/training/2017/03/23/enterprise_architecture_training

Instructor: Mark Richards

Early Bird Rate:  $1,950 thru 2/17, after $2,150

JUG Discount:  Use code: usergroup100 for a $100 off

Software Architecture Workshop Course Outline

Training will be held 9AM - 5PM each day.

DAY 1

Introduction

• Agenda and course logistics
• Attendee introductions
• Expectations of a software architect

Architectural Thinking

• Managing architecture knowledge
• Architecture vs. design
• Balancing hands-on coding and architecture
• Identifying architecture characteristics
• Analyzing architecture tradeoffs
• Working with architecture teams
• Architecture katas (exercises)

Architecture Patterns

• Microservices architecture pattern
• Service-oriented architecture pattern
• Service-based architecture pattern

DAY 2

Architecture Patterns (cont.)

• Layered architecture pattern
• Event-driven architecture pattern
• Microkernel architecture pattern
• Pipeline architecture
• Space-based architecture pattern

Component-based thinking

• Component responsibility models
• Identifying components and services
• Component granularity
• Component coupling
• Compoent cohesion
• Architecture katas (exercises)

Documenting and Presenting Architecture

• Diagramming software architecture
• Documenting software architecture
• Presenting software architecture
• Architecture Katas (exercises)

DAY 3

Reactive Architecture

• Creating self-healing systems
• Responsive patterns
• Resilient patterns
• Elastic patterns
• Architecture katas (exercises)

Architecture Techniques and Soft Skills

• Architecture decisions
• Architecture refactoring
• Making teams effective
• Negotiation skills (exercises)
• Leadership skills

Summary and Wrap-up

• The future of software architecture
• Architecture certification
• Developing your career path
• Next steps

Course Logistics

Prerequisites: developers wanting to take the next step to architect or new architects wanting to validate and hone their architecture skills 
Laptops: as this is a hands-on course, attendees will need a laptop with some drawing tool such as PowerPoint, Keynote, Visio, OmniGraffle, etc.

Enterprise Architecture Workshop Course Outline

Training will be held 9AM - 5PM each day.

Introduction

• Enterprise architecture context
• Why do you need EA?
• EA process overview
• Value-driven enterprise architecture
• Enterprise initiatives
• Structure and segmentation
• Enterprise decisions
• Expectations of an enterprise architect

Approaches

• Model-based approach
• Initiative-based approach
• Transforming EA: Pragmatic approaches
• Issues with traditional approaches

Strategies and Standards

• Selecting the right strategy
• Governing enterprise standards
• Prescriptive strategy
• Classic alternatives strategy
• Distributed strategy
• Durable interface strategy
• Strategy and governance
• Kata: Selecting the right strategy

Enterprise Modeling

• Purpose and goals
• Domain partitioning
• Representational consistency
• Work process modeling
• System modeling
• Data information modeling
• Technology and infrastructure modeling
• Automation modeling
• Model synergy and synchronization
• Lean approaches to modeling
• ArchiMate standard overview
• Modeling examples and scenarios
• Kata: Leveraging models within the enterprise

Enterprise Frameworks

• Purpose and goals
• History and evolution of frameworks
• Advantages of using frameworks
• Disadvantages of frameworks
• Framework capabilities
• Framework types
• Zachman Framework overview
• TOGAF overview
• FEA overview
• Framework comparison
• Leveraging frameworks

Transformation Techniques

• Enterprise cloud strategies
• Enterprise evolution
• Strategy and standards evaluation
• Leveraging a data bus for transformation
• Leveraging SOA
• Using an API for Transformation
• Using an integration hub for transformation
• Building enterprise services
• Protocol decoupling
• Hub federation
• Contract decoupling
• System migration refactoring techniques
• System adaptation refactoring techniques
• Platform transformation
• Application consolidation
• Architecture migration

Roadmaps

• Transformation types
• Context-based roadmaps
• Model-based roadmaps
• Roadmap iteration models
• Roadmap project profile models
• Roadmap prioritization models
• Creating an effective EA roadmap
• Roadmap model synchronization

Communication

• Communication pitfalls and warning signs
• Core EA communication techniques
• Communicating models
• Communicating decisions

Creating a Modern EA Practice

• Effective team structures
• Breaking down barriers
• Strategy and team structure
• EA team ownership
• Creating an agile EA team
• Techniques for effective architecture review boards
• Skills required for an enterprise architect
• EA Career path

Summary and Wrap-up

• Architecture resources

Course Logistics

Prerequisites: architects looking to become enterprise architects or enterprise architects looking for more ways to become effective