Architecture Kickstart – From Zero to Productive in (Almost) No Time

Who does not know the situation? A new project starts. Everybody is eager to start. The deadline is fixed, everything else is not. The product manager floods you with a mixture of vague requirements and solution ideas. The developers want to write code – now! Someone already pitched an “architecture”, usually a mere listing of hype trends and technologies decoupled from the actual needs.

And you as an architect want to cry “Stop! Let us first understand what we need to do before we start running!”. But you do not get the time for doing the required architectural work. What to do in such a situation?

In this workshop, I would like to introduce an architecture kickstart, I successfully applied several times when I found myself in such a situation. This approach helped me to understand enough about the problem domain in a day or less to be able to start acting, guiding and making decisions.

We will discuss the essentials needed to start running, various approaches to gather them, how to align them with the capabilities of the organization, how to communicate along the way and how to move on from the kickstart.

And of course, there will be time for your ideas and questions. Let us kickstart architecture together!