- 7 Architectural Sins: Why We Keep Making Them and How We Can Stop
Why do we keep making the same mistakes over and over? Why do we praise best practices like TTD, DDD and Team Topologies but don’t practice …
Vanessa Formicola Maschinenhaus
- Agile meets Architecture meets Regulation: a Continuous Delivery Playbook for Regulated Industries
Modern ways of working – agile, DevOps, continuous delivery, and others – are thought by some senior managers to be incompatible with …
Simon Rohrer Kesselhaus Video Slides
- An agile way of looking at agility
Given that agile is in it's core: inspect and adapt, what can we see now if we inspect, and how and what can we adapt? Join this session to …
Aino Vonge Corry Kesselhaus Slides
- Architects Aren’t the Smartest People in the Room
But they make everyone else smarter! It’s a common misconception that architects should make those complex and difficult to reverse …
Gregor Hohpe Kesselhaus
- Being the Human in the Loop
From coding with more comprehensive autocomplete to coding with vibes, developers, teams and companies are increasingly adopting LLM …
Kevlin Henney Kesselhaus Video Slides
- Best Simple System for Now
Software teams often face a false choice: move fast and accumulate technical debt, or build the perfect system and miss the deadline. But …
Daniel Terhorst-North Kesselhaus Video Slides
- Bridging the Chasm between Agile and Embedded Systems Development
There is often a deep divide within companies that develop embedded cyber-physical systems, such as cars or medical devices: On the one …
Tobias Kästner, Ulrich Becker Maschinenhaus Slides
- CircleK eMobility Journey Towards Effective Cross-functional Value Streams
In this presentation, we will discuss the multi-year journey of Circle K's eMobility organization as it scales to support growth from …
Eduardo da Silva, Guro Fladvad Størdal Kesselhaus
- Continuous Architecture Evolution With Team Habits
Modernizing software architectures and codebases is often seen as a disruptive, costly, and politically difficult endeavor. Yet, continuous …
Michael Plöd Kesselhaus Video
- Cracking the Code: Culture Clashes Between Agilists, Managers, and Architects
Agile teams often run into friction not only with management, but also with software architects. While managers are seen as too directive …
Jonathan Frankenberger, Jonathan Reißig Maschinenhaus Slides
- Debiasing Your Software Design Decision-Making
Every significant software design choice—whether you’re designing a bounded context, deciding on the system boundary, settling on an …
Evelyn van Kelle, Kenny (Baas) Schwegler Maschinenhaus Video Slides
- Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchy (but were afraid to ask)
“Patterns of Anarchy” is a collection of writings published in 1966. I came to it because a Christopher Alexander quotes from it in “A …
Andrew Harmel-Law Kesselhaus Video Slides
- Four Years, One Ensemble – Challenges, Aha Moments, and True Team Transformation
Ensemble Programming is more than just a way of working – it’s a paradigm shift in team collaboration. In this talk, I’ll share my journey …
Joshua Töpfer Maschinenhaus Video Slides
- From flocks to pyramids: Balancing self-organization and architecture
Nature is full of systems that thrive without central control. Flocks of sparrows turn in perfect synchronization, fungi finding the …
Jos van Schouten Maschinenhaus Video Slides
- How to navigate resistance by playing with the elephant in the room
Many software architects and other change agents often face unvoiced resistance in their organisations, often without understanding where …
Marjoke Franken Maschinenhaus
- Preparation - The underrated potential for CoMo workshops
When it comes to Collaborative Modelling CoMo, simplicity and adaptability are often perceived as defining strengths, but this notion of …
Beija Nigl Maschinenhaus Video
- Racing with Two Engines: Navigating Trade-offs in a Large-Scale Legacy Transformation
Commercial enterprises, public organizations, civil institutions, and governmental partners typically require heavy upfront planning and …
László Merckle Kesselhaus Slides
- Renovate or Rebuild? Architectural techniques for the million euro tradeoff
At some point most of us will face the critical decision of whether to modernize a legacy system or rebuild it from scratch. While these …
Eoin Woods Kesselhaus Slides
- Sociotechnical Architecture – Having Your Agile and Your Agility Too
Agile has given us structures, roles, and methods to coordinate work — yet the more we scale it, the further we often drift from the very …
Xin Yao Kesselhaus Video Slides
- Sociotechnical Architecture Reviews: Understanding Teams, Not Just Artefacts
At first glance, software architecture appears to be a purely technical artefact. So it should be possible to review it solely as such—or …
Eberhard Wolff Kesselhaus Video Slides
- Splitting without Splitting
We all know it - our team has become too big, meetings take too long, half of the conversations don’t apply to our work, and the sprint …
Tsvetelina Plummer, Pricillia Gunawan Maschinenhaus Video Slides
- Staffing and procurement strategies for fast flow
Organizations striving for adaptive fast flow face a common challenge: how to make staffing and procurement decisions that balance speed, …
Michael Plöd Kesselhaus Video Slides
- Staying Agile When It Gets Hard
By now, we have all learned how to reach agile maturity, but what do you do when it starts slipping away? After two decades of agile …
Katie Clark Maschinenhaus Slides
- Technical Coaching: a Side-Quest for Architects
Technical coaches are often part-time architects with a desire to help software developers to adopt better coding practices. The smart …
Emily Bache Kesselhaus Video Slides
- The Cost of Good Intentions: Anti-Patterns in Architecture Modernization
Modernizing legacy systems seemed exciting...until I found myself absorbed in rewrites, facing business blockers, and watching tech debt …
Javiera Laso Maschinenhaus Slides
- What AI augmentation means for technical leaders
AI assistance for software development teams continues to evolve at a fast pace. As AI becomes part of how we design, evolve, and reason …
Birgitta Boeckeler Kesselhaus Video Slides
- When Processes Collide: Lessons from the B2B Shop Floor
Working in B2B means living in a world where no two customers look the same. Each partnership comes with its own processes, exceptions, and …
Silvia Schreier, Katja Burkert Maschinenhaus Video