ThoughtWorks' Business Technology Briefings

Emergent Design & Evolutionary Architecture

Most of the software world has realised that Big Design Up Front (BDUF) doesn’t work well in software.
But lots of developers struggle with this notion when it applies to architecture and design, surely you can’t start coding, right? You need some level of understanding before you can start work.

ThoughtWorks Luminary and Conference Presenter Extraordinaire Neal Ford will explore the current thinking about Emergent Design and Evolutionary Architecture, including:

• Proactive approaches with test driven development

• Reactive approaches including both refactoring and composed methods

• Strategies and techniques for allowing design to emerge from projects as they proceed, keeping your code in sync with the problem domain

• Real world examples of these techniques in action

Our Speaker

Neal Ford, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler, ThoughtWorks
Neal is an acclaimed international speaker and expert on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has spoken at over 100 conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Neal is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/ DVD presentations and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. .

Brisbane

8:00 am - 9:30 am, Tuesday, 16 February 2010.
Hilton Brisbane - 190 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane.

Register here to reserve your place.

Sydney

8:00 am - 9:30 am, Tuesday, 23 February 2010.
Hilton Sydney - 488 George Street, Sydney.

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Melbourne

8:00 am - 9:30 am, Wednesday, 24 February 2010.
Westin Melbourne - 205 Collins Street, Melbourne.

Register here to reserve your place.

RSVP by 12 February 2010.
For details download the full invitation here.

You can always call us on 1300 723 823 if you have any questions or prefer to register over the phone. Please ask for Jacqui Webb-Pullman

*Please note there is no charge for this event

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