SOLD OUT: The architect elevator

Gregor Hohpe (ArchitectElevator.com)

9:00—17:00 Monday, 4 November—Tuesday, 5 November

Location: M8

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As the digital economy changes the rules for enterprises, the role of architects also changes. You must connect the penthouse, where the business strategy is set, with the engine room, where the enabling technologies are implemented. Gregor Hohpe explains why making this connection by going from floor to floor won’t work. Architects bypass existing structures by taking the architect elevator.

What you'll learn, and how you can apply it

Learn how to reverse engineer an organization's beliefs and influence them, clearly articulate the value of architecture in a digital transformation, communicate complex technical topics and their merit compassionately to both upper management and technical teams
Zoom in and out of a technical topic to view it from different levels of abstractions
Understand how to cut through the complexity of large-scale systems by using models and systems thinking, make disciplined and principle-based architectural decisions, and navigate organizational politics, harness complexity, and steer external vendors

Who is this presentation for?

You're an architect or IT leader.

Level

Intermediate

Prerequisites:

Experience building applications or running IT projects

Outline

Day 1

Introduction
The digital revolution dissected
Digital giants’ “secret sauce”
Architects and architecture
The value of architecture
The architect elevator: From the penthouse to the engine room
The penthouse: Understanding and translating corporate strategy
The penthouse: Reverse-engineering organizations

Day 2

Recap
The penthouse: Engaging management
Midlevels: Thinking in systems
Midlevels: Better decisions with models and patterns
Midlevels: Articulating architecture (diagramming and notations)
Engine room: Internet-scale architectures
Engine room: Accelerating software delivery
Establishing architecture as discipline in the enterprise
Conclusion

About your instructor

Gregor Hohpe advises CTOs and technology leaders in the transformation of their organization and IT infrastructure. Riding the architect elevator from the engine room to the penthouse, he connects corporate strategy with technical implementation by making complex topics engaging and approachable without compromising technical accuracy. Gregor is a Singapore Government Smart Nation Fellow and held positions as technical director at Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO and chief architect at Allianz, one of world’s largest insurance companies. Having established accelerated innovation and complexity and cost reduction as architecture goals, he oversaw a global data center consolidation and deployed the first on-premises cloud and software delivery platform. He’s a coauthor of the seminal book Enterprise Integration Patterns, which is widely cited as the reference vocabulary for asynchronous messaging solutions. His book 37 Things One Architect Knows about IT Transformation tells stories from the trenches of IT transformation, while his articles have been featured in Best Software Writing by Joel Spolsky and 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. He’s an active member of the IEEE Software advisory board.