Rebecca Parsons
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where they keep going back
- Collision2 editions2017–2018
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on a stage with
- Fred Georgeonce
- Greg Hutchingsonce
- Joe Korngiebelonce
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who talks about the same things
- Martin Fowler19 talks
- Mark Richards33 talks
- Stefan Tilkov11 talks
- Andy Hunt14 talks
- Kent Beck14 talks
- Dave Thomas33 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| SAG Expert Interview #04: AI’s Impact on Software Architecture & Women in Tech | Software Architecture Gathering 2024 | 2024-11-11 |
AI appears across the lifecycle: coding assistance, scenario generation, test data and observability using pattern recognition; one claim is 25% of Google code… | ||
| Keynote | Software Architecture Gathering 2024 | 2024-11-11 |
Estimates put a full foundational LLM training run at $65M training cost, so organizations favor hosted models and RAG (retrieval augmented generation) to… | ||
| Architecture & Responsible Technology | GOTO Copenhagen 2024 | 2024-09-30 |
Compares low-stakes vs life‑critical systems with concrete examples: a Central London sandwich app needs no five‑nines while rapidFTR family tracing for UNICEF… | ||
| Software Architecture for Gen AI | Great International Developer Summit 2024 | 2024-04-23 |
Argues against building private foundational models because of energy and data costs and recommends RAG and fine-tuning-light patterns instead; warns… | ||
| Evolutionary Architectures | Great International Developer Summit 2024 | 2024-04-23 |
Argues that an architecture’s target becomes a set of fitness functions that are monitored and enforced, not a fixed diagram, and shows practical techniques… | ||
| Platforms, Architecture and Sustainability | Software Architecture Gathering – Digital 2023 | 2023-11-27 |
Argues that a platform must be a self‑serve API product and splits platforms into developer platform and business capability platform; recommends four pillars… | ||
| How will Evolutionary Architecture evolve? | XConf Europe 2023 | 2023-10-09 |
Defines evolutionary architecture as guided incremental change and insists fitness functions (build failures, alerts) make nonfunctional goals objective… | ||
| Building Evolutionary Architectures: Principles & Practices | YOW! Melbourne 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Argues that architectures must support guided incremental change using measurable fitness functions and shows concrete practices: use Netflix’s Simian Army… | ||
| Building Evolutionary Architectures: Principles and Practices | Agile meets Architecture Berlin 2022 | 2022-09-06 |
Defines an evolutionary architecture as one that supports guided incremental change by encoding measurable fitness functions such as latency uptime or… | ||
| The past, present and future of Architecture | XConf North America 2021 | 2021-10-26 |
Argues that architecture must be evolutionary — explicitly guided and measurable across reliability, scalability, security and maintainability — enabled by… | ||
| Evolutionary Architecture: Principles and Patterns | iSAQB Software Architecture Gathering – Digital 2021 | 2021-10-11 |
Defines evolutionary architecture as supporting guided incremental change across multiple dimensions and prescribes using architectural fitness functions… | ||
| Let's Talk about AI, ML and Bias | Clojure/conj 2018 | 2018-11-29 |
Explains that voice recognition fails on Scottish accents and women's voices; a medical app cannot track women's cycles affecting 50% of the population; facial… | ||
| Principles of Evolutionary Architecture | CAS 2018 | 2018-11-28 |
Defines evolutionary architecture as supporting guided, incremental change across multiple quality dimensions and shows concrete techniques: continuous… | ||
| The Principles of Evolutionary Architecture | QCon São Paulo 2018 | 2018-05-09 |
Defines evolutionary architecture as supporting guided, incremental change via objective fitness function checks (examples: cyclomatic complexity thresholds… | ||
| Where Does the Real World End - The Blurring of the Physical and Digital | QCon São Paulo 2018 | 2018-05-09 |
Argues that sensors plus cheaper compute and ubiquitous networking create high‑fidelity models of the physical world that can be read and acted on, cites… | ||
| The secret to technical leadership | Collision 2018 | 2018-04-30 |
Argues that technical leadership means investing time in people not just tech, backing passionate owners who can explain market fit, and celebrating sensible… | ||
| The CTO is dead, long live the CTO | Collision 2017 | 2017-05-02 |
Argues that the old CTO who hides in a windowless office and optimizes efficiency is dead and replaced by a business-facing leader who prioritizes speed to… | ||
| Why your next CEO will be a technologist | Collision 2017 | 2017-05-02 |
Argues that CEOs will increasingly be technologists because technology now drives top-line revenue not just back-office costs and gives data: about 1,800 CEOs… | ||
| 2016 Keynote - Rebecca Parsons, Thoughtworks, Agile on the Beach, Cornwall UK | Agile on the Beach 2016 | 2016-07-06 |
Argues for hypothesis-driven development with testable business metrics and rapid experiments rather than one big bet, recommends automating deployments so… | ||
| Panel Discussion and Close | Agile on the Beach 2016 | 2016-07-06 |
An improvisational fishbowl improv panel lets audience members swap into one of four seats and feed questions written on Post-it questions, prioritised by the… | ||
| Keynote The Evolution of Evolutionary Architecture | Codemotion Rome 2016 | 2016-03-18 |
History of architecture traces concrete shifts: emergent design plus refactoring and tests let teams safely change object hierarchies (example: two pairs… | ||
| Principles of Evolutionary Architecture | Codemotion Rome 2016 | 2016-03-18 |
Claim: architecture must be judged by a concrete fitness function (security, performance, etc.) and decisions delayed to the last responsible moment… | ||
| The Evolution of Evolutionary Architecture | OSCON Amsterdam 2015 | 2015-10-26 |
Evolutionary architecture argues that architectures evolve toward known goals using toolchains that make change safe: continuous integration provides the… | ||
| Evolutionary Architecture & Microservices | GOTO Chicago 2015 | 2015-05-11 |
Microservices break a monolith into small processes that communicate over lightweight protocols (often HTTP), own their separate databases, and are… | ||
| Is Agile Democratic and more on the Agile and People Panel | Agile India 2012 | 2012-02-17 |
Argues that agile decision-making often looks like a benevolent dictatorship—a leader or steering group injects change, then teams become self-organizing—and… | ||
| Agile Is Not the Easy Way Out | Agile India 2012 | 2012-02-17 |
Argues that agile succeeds because it is rigorous, sustainable and realistic, not because it’s easy; shows concrete practices that produce those outcomes: pair… | ||
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