Agile meets Architecture 2025
2025-04-03..2025-04-04
Berlin, Germany
as the organisers put it
Agile meets Architecture is the conference bridging agile software development and software architecture since 2022.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How Flow Works and other curiosities | James Lewis | 42m |
Work arrives and moves as information through value streams, with an example showing 5 days of value work buried under 42 days of wait for a 47‑day lead time… | ||
| Navigating Agile Transformations in a Crisis: From Thunderstorm to Smooth Sailing | Polina Patsulda | 41m |
A 20-person team working on a 7-year product faces office shutdown, two-level management loss and a forced product merger within weeks; the concrete approach… | ||
| A Commune in the Ivory Tower: A New Approach to Architecture | Andrew Harmel-Law | 38m |
Claims a scalable alternative to central architects: a decentralized architecture advice process where anyone can decide after seeking advice, and decisions… | ||
| Riding The Rollercoaster of Change: Turning uncertainty into growth | Sofia Katsaouni | 37m |
Life changes into Finland, bonus parenting, unemployment after a company layoff that cuts 85% of staff, and launching Legit Coaching all happen within months… | ||
| Beyond Estimates (Estimates and "NoEstimates") - Let's Explore the Possibilities | Woody Zuill | 42m |
Argues that time/cost estimates are guesses biased by anchoring and planning fallacy and often drive bad decisions; cites a canceled project that cost about… | ||
| Towards Effective Execution of Architecture Modernization | Eduardo Da Silva, Nick Tune | 40m |
Modernization is multi‑year, not an overnight rewrite: identify skills gaps quickly and create an architecture modernization enabling team to kickstart a few… | ||
| We need more managers | Gitte Klitgaard | 36m |
Argues that management is a learnable skill essential for healthy organisations, not overhead: cites Spotify’s 1,500 layoffs that degraded operations, a… | ||
| Evolutionary Software Quality | Markus Harrer | 39m |
Combines ISO 25010 and Wardley mapping to map specific quality attributes to evolution stages so architects know what to invest in when: genesis emphasizes… | ||
| Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions | Kenny Baas-Schwegler, Evelyn Van Kelle | 41m |
A practical method for turning messy socio-technical problems into decisions: run low-friction collaborative modeling sessions (using event storming, domain… | ||
| Architecture and Agility: A Shared Skillset! | Eberhard Wolff | 41m |
Claims that software architecture is effectively an implementation of agility, backed by concrete practices: use of architecture decision records to record… | ||
| Flags of Flexibility - Unlocking Rapid Iteration | Oussama Zaki | 44m |
Feature flags power a launch of 20 features launched behind flags enabling parallel development, internal dogfooding, private betas, AB/multivariant… | ||
| Introduction to Sociotechnical Engineering | Yevgen Nebesov | 30m |
Argues systems engineering applies to sociotechnical systems by writing functional and nonfunctional requirements (example: make technical decisions without a… | ||
| Architecture: The Absence of Self-Organisation | Gerrit Beine | 39m |
Argues that self-organization is ubiquitous but architecture intentionally limits it: an architecture is a boundary that steers local interactions toward a… | ||
| Design Patterns for Software Diagramming | Jacqui Read | 41m |
Practical rules and pitfalls for making diagrams that actually transfer knowledge: use C4-style levels and link them with consistent IDs, separate structure… | ||
| Now we've given them every freedom and they still don’t do what we want | Michael Mahlberg | 36m |
A maze-based labyrinth simulation demonstrates that total freedom without goals creates anxiety while introducing simple rules and shared decision rights… | ||
| Shift-Left for Learning - With the Help of Enabling Teams | Tsvetelina Plummer, Berrin Akvardar | 41m |
Company builds a quarterly two-day learning event called we.innovate driven by community topic proposals and Confluence voting, staffed by an enabling team of… | ||
| Domain-Driven Transformation - how to improve the structure of legacy systems | Carola Lilienthal | 38m |
Methodology turns a Big Ball of Mud into domain-aligned modules via four concrete steps: Domain Rediscovery (collaborative modelling like domain storytelling… | ||
| Team Topologies Panel | Michael Plöd | 58m |
Panelists report that adoption is uneven: stream-aligned and platform as a product practices appear widely, while enabling teams and complicated subsystem… | ||
| Software architecture as a contributor to high performing teams | Simon Brown | 41m |
The session argues that team performance stalls without solid technical foundations and shows concrete fixes: use the C4 model to draw hierarchal… | ||
| Building a Bank (with DDD, Microservices, and Autonomous Teams) | Lutz Huehnken, Florian Thiel | 41m |
Upvest builds a greenfield banking stack: external REST external / Kafka internal APIs, microservices in Golang + Kafka, and a minimal cloud platform with… | ||
| Architecture in ACTion: Impactful Mind Skills for Tech Leaders | Cosima Laube | 41m |
Argues that growing a measurable “psychological flexibility” muscle improves technical leadership and resilience, built from three pillars: awareness… | ||
| 4 Lenses on Organisations | Simon Rohrer | 41m |
Four concrete lenses for organising work and why to apply each: Value Stream + Team Topologies focuses on faster flow by using value‑stream mapping, DDD and… | ||
| Autonomous teams require great technical leaders | Jakob Wolman, Gitte Klitgaard | 41m |
Claim: autonomous teams succeed only when a frame, explicit accountability, and mature technical leadership exist. Example: a company with hundreds of… | ||
| 🎮 From Raid Leader to Agile Leader: How MMOs Shaped My Path to Enterprise Agility | Hafedh Messaoudi | 41m |
Claims that MMO leadership transfers to enterprise agility, supported by concrete practices: running guilds of ~100 players, coordinating 5x5 raid squads… | ||
| Applying refactoring techniques ... | Bjorna Kalaja | 39m |
A 2023 case study measures energy and CO2 for a 30–50 line code kata, applies refactoring for SOLID principles and links runtime CPU/memory/network metrics to… | ||
| From here to there and back again | Simon Wardley | 58m |
Explains how Wardley Maps turn system graphs into actionable maps by anchoring users, listing user needs, mapping component evolution, then applying economic… | ||
| Stories from the trenches: Building product teams ... | Ana Nad, Lejla Vulovic | 44m |
Built a single digital solution for lending and foreign exchange that serves five markets, tens of thousands of customers and trading/lending volumes in the… | ||
| Human Robot Agent: Scouting AI Beyond Hype and Doom | Jurgen Appelo | 53m |
A new book called Human Robot Agent argues that custom AI teammates (Zed, Claude, Gemini instances like Vera and Bar) can replace 100 beta readers with AI… | ||
| Practices for Effective Continuous Software Architecture | Eoin Woods | 38m |
Argues that architecture must be continuous, not front‑loaded, and gives concrete practices: form a technical leadership group to decide and champion… | ||
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