Confessions of an Enterprise Architect • Scott Shaw • YOW! 2016

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2016. #GOTOcon #YOW Scott Shaw - Head of Technology at Thoughtworks @thoughtworks RESOURCES ABSTRACT Having worked in and around the software development business for many years, gaining a certain amount of grey hair and experience along the way, I’m often asked to help out teams struggling under the sometimes onerous and dogmatic restrictions of corporate IT. Years of these engagements led to a sort of messianic complex; Me–righteous defender of software craft– locked in epic struggle with evil strictures of enterprise architecture. But lately the tables have turned. Faced with challenges of business reality, regulatory compliance, and organisational complexity, I found myself committing some of the same acts I might have once condemned. This talk gives me an opportunity to confess some of those behaviours, explain why they’re sometimes necessary in a large and complex corporate environment and offer some ways they might be done differently. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture • #SoftwareArchitecture #DevOps #Microservices #Monolith #ModularMonolith #Complexity #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #ScottShaw #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.