Birgitta Boeckeler
Technical Principal, ThoughtWorks

Birgitta Boeckeler is a technical principal at ThoughtWorks, a global software consultancy, where she spends her time on software delivery teams with coding, architecting, coaching, and consulting. She’s been building software across all layers for more than 15 years, mainly in the space of large custom-developed websites.

Sessions

16:50–17:35 Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Location: M6/M7

Cultivating architecture with principles

Enterprise architecture

Secondary topics: Overview

Birgitta Boeckeler (ThoughtWorks)

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(4.60, 5 ratings)

Many organizations strive to establish independent, autonomous development teams. The goal is to achieve speed, scalability, and empowerment—but you have to decide what architecture governance looks like in a decentralized setup. Birgitta Boeckeler explores architecture principles as a way to avoid chaos, providing lessons about using them to walk the line between hard rules and helpful guidance. Read more.

13:30–13:50 Thursday, 7 November 2019

Location: Hall A7/A8

Cognitive biases in the architect's life

Birgitta Boeckeler (ThoughtWorks)

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(4.60, 10 ratings)

In this talk, Birgitta will go through just a few of the cognitive biases that can trip you up as architects, and how to soften their potentially negative impact. Read more.