NealFord
Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery.
Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis.
He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of 6 books, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Groovy, functional languages, Scheme, Object Pascal, C++, and C. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has taught on-site classes nationally and internationally to all phases of the military and to many Fortune 500 companies. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.
This workshop highlights the ideas from the forthcoming Building Evolutionary Architectures, showing how to build architectures that evolve gracefully over time.
How do you create creativity? This talk offers techniques and perspectives to discover, grow, and project your ideas.
A Technology Radar is a tool that forces you to organize and think about near term future technology decisions, both for you and your company. This talk discusses using the radar for personal breadth development, architectural guidance, and governance.
An evolutionary architecture supports incremental, guided change along multiple dimensions.
Building Evolutionary Architectures requires identifying and creating architectural fitness functions. This hands-on workshop defines fitness functions and provides group exercises to help identify and discover them.
This multi-disciplinary session takes a deep dive into the confluence of topics required to fully understand the intersection of Continuous Delivery and architecture, including evolutionary architecture and emergent design, with an emphasis on how architectural decisions affect the ease in changing and evolving your code, the role of metrics to understand code, how Domain Driven Design's Bounded Context reifies in architecture, how to reduce intra-component/service coupling, and other techniques.
This session covers two critical soft skills for architects: * creating clear, concise documentation of software architecture, both structure and decisions * presenting architectural ideas as clearly as possible
Zero fluff.