Developer conference  7-11 November  Malmö Sweden

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FRI

15.40 - 16.20

The Art of Visualising Software Architecture

Level: Intermediate

Ask somebody in the building industry to visually communicate the architecture of a building and you'll be presented with site plans, floor plans, elevation views, cross-section views and detail drawings. In contrast, ask a software developer to communicate the software architecture of a software system using diagrams and you'll likely get a confused mess of boxes and lines. I've asked thousands of software developers to do just this and the results anecdotally suggest that effective visual communication of software architecture is a skill that's sorely lacking in the software development industry.

This talk explores the visual communication of software architecture based upon my experience of working with software development teams across the globe. We'll look at what is commonplace today, the importance of creating a shared vocabulary, diagram notation, the value of creating a model plus how to use tooling and static analysis techniques to automate diagram generation.

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