Workshops by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Agile Architecting: A Pragmatic Approach

Two day workshop with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Agile teams embrace a “whole team” approach and incremental delivery of system functionality. This requires changes to the ways architects traditionally work. Instead of delivering a fully defined architecture at the beginning, the architecture continues to evolve and be refined as new functional...
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Decision-making Practices for Evolving and Sustaining Software Architecture

4 x 4 hours workshop with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Ken Power

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn and apply a set of decision styles and decision-making models that are useful when making architecture decisions in different contexts. You will practice methods for making sense of the current situation and your architecture’s context. You will also explore a variety of topics including weighing options, implications of group dynamics and design expertise on decision making, taking action through making design decisions, designing experiments, and resolving problems. You will also learn practical techniques for influencing your organization’s culture and capturing, retaining, and communicating architecture decisions across time.
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Design Heuristics

Two day workshop with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

How can we get better as software designers? By becoming more aware of our design heuristics and continuing to cultivate and refine them. Heuristics aid in design, guide our use of other heuristics, and even determine our attitude and behavior. In addition to heuristics we learn from others, we h...
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Distilling Your Design Heuristics

Two day workshop with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

How can we get better as software designers? By becoming more aware of our design heuristics and continuing to grow, cultivate, and refine them. Heuristics aid in design, guide our use of other heuristics, and even determine our attitude and behavior.
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Heuristics and Pattern Mining

Find, organize, and describe software patterns with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

We all use patterns to create—software architectures, product solutions, and even our organizations. We’ve also gained valuable insights through actually building things. This premise of this workshop is that everyone has valuable design knowledge worth sharing and the potential to share that kno...
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About Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Rebecca is an object design pioneer who invented the set of design practices known as Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) and by accident started the x-Driven Design meme. Along the way she authored two popular object design books that are still in print. She was the design columnist for IEEE Software. You can find her design columns, papers, and writing at wirfs-brock.com.

In her work, Rebecca helps teams hone their design and architecture skills, manage and reduce technical debt, refactor their code, and address architecture risks. In addition to coaching and personal mentoring, she teaches and conducts workshops on Responsibility-Driven Design, Pragmatic TDD, enterprise application design, agile design skills and thinking, being agile about system qualities, and Agile Architecture. In her spare time she jogs (even in the rain).

Rebecca is also program director of the Agile Alliance’s Experience Report Initiative. Another interest of hers is software patterns. She serves on the Board of the Hillside Group and recently has written an essay about the relationship between patterns and heuristics, patterns about how to create and manage magic backlogs, sustainable architecture, agile QA, and adaptive systems architectures. If you are interested in writing about your experiences or sharing your wisdom in pattern form, contact Rebecca. She can help you turn your itch for writing into the written word.


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