Schedule: Leadership skills sessions

Paris Buttfield-Addison, Mars Geldard, and Tim Nugent explore game design without coding or game engines. You’ll get a fresh perspective on architecture, design, and community engagement by understanding how people interact with the fastest-growing form of entertainment in the world: games. A software architect can learn a lot from game design; here you'll learn everything you need to get started. Read more.

Eltjo Poort is here to help you figure out if you've struck the right balance between architecture and agile working. Eltjo explores how to measure agile architecture maturity and applied the model to help teams get more value out of their architecture function. You might recognize some of the behavior patterns. Read more.

It's a real challenge to develop great architects on your team when your organization offers limited opportunities to actually perform as an architect. Jean Bordelon examines approaches to give aspiring architects meaningful ways to grow and veteran architects ways to hone their craft as well as lessons learned along the way. Read more.

Organizations these days try many things to move faster, from adopting lean and DevOps approaches to moving to the cloud to working weekends. Many organizations realize that increasing velocity is about more than just moving a bit faster. Gregor Hohpe explores the fundamentally different mind-set it takes—one that looks at the first derivative. Read more.

Software is changing the world, and software developers need to open their eyes to the link between ethics and software. Rotem Hermon outlines some examples of ethical questions involving software and algorithms. You'll explore technology, sense of self, politics, and truth, and you'll try to understand what you can do about it. Read more.