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Practical - A.K.A. Actually Useful - Architecture

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This talk presents ten practices for useful software architecture, covering technical choices, rules, iteration, delivery flow, and the way teams and organizations are structured. It focuses on avoiding unnecessary architectural work while addressing technical challenges and runtime quality.

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Intro
10 recommendations for pragmatic architecture work
1. Choose your perspectives consciously
2. Explicitly architect your team setup
3. Match your organizational setup to project size, etc.
4. Don't be afraid to decide things centrally
5. Pick your battles wisely
6. Enforce the least viable amount of rules, rigidly
7. Balance prescriptive vs. descriptive architecture
8. Don't aim for perfection - iterate
9. Architect for delivery flow as much as for runtime quality
10. Be boring & do more with less
Conclusion
Outro

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