The rapid adoption of AI-assisted code generation is transforming how software systems are built, but it also introduces significant risks to software design quality. While large language models (LLMs) can efficiently produce functional code at unprecedented speed, they lack an explicit understanding of the overall intended design structure, often resulting in poor modularity, hidden dependencies, … Continue reading Talk Announcement: Managing Software Design Quality in the AI Era
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I’m happy to announce that I’ll offer two new training courses in 2024: Effective Design of Cloud-native Software Architectures Agile Architecture Engineering In the first training the participants learn how cloud-based design concepts and architectural design practices can be used to effectively design cloud-native software architectures. Moreover, they learn how cloud-native software architecture designs can … Continue reading New Training Courses Available in 2024
A few weeks ago I kicked off a new research endeavor aiming at closing the knowledge gap related to architectural concepts and methods, and how to integrate them with agile practices (see the blog post On Agility and Architectural Engineering). Today I released the first version of a dedicated knowledge base page consisting of selected … Continue reading Agility and Architectural Engineering – A New Knowledge Base Page
Agile Concepts and Methods are All the Rage Social media and market surveys indicate an increasing number of organizations reporting that they are applying agile practices (see e.g. [1]). Those practices are used by a wide range of organizations with different sizes, geographic locations, market roles and industry focus. At first, they were deployed on … Continue reading On Agility and Architectural Engineering
When thinking of the role of an enterprise architect, I came up with the idea of comparing the enterprise architect with the role of a sherpa. In government, a sherpa is a person who represents a head of state or government and prepares international summits, especially the G8 summit. Sherpas meet before the official summits … Continue reading The Role of the Enterprise Architect as a Sherpa
A few days ago a friend of mine changed the short description of his business on his Linkedin page to the slogan: 'No politics, just delivery.'. What a brilliant slogan! He's working in the IT project business for many years and I assume that he's tired of all these projects that are heavily influenced by … Continue reading No Politics, Just Great Architecture