2 July 2018 - Embedded Artistry

2 July 201821 April 2020

What I Learned at Bredemeyer Consulting’s Software Architecture Workshop

I've become increasingly interested in software architecture and visual modeling as I've progressed in my career. I chanced upon a Bredemeyer Consulting article, "What is Software Architecture?", which put the idea of becoming an architect within my reach. When Bredemeyer Consulting announced an open-enrollment workshop I immediately signed up. I attended four days of architecture …

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One thing to note here is that it's important to actually track what you're doing and not just guess at what you're doing. When I've recorded what people do and compare it to what they think they're doing, these are often quite different. It would generally be considered absurd to operate a complex software system without metrics or tracing, but it's normal to operate yourself without metrics or tracing, even though you're much more complex and harder to understand than the software you work on.