The slides and video from my "The Frustrated Architect" talk at Skills Matter in November 2011 are available to view online.

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Here are some of the events that we spoke at in 2011 and are speaking at in 2012. The slides are available to download.

A couple of months ago I went to an excellent set of talks at LJC night at QCon. This not only inspired my entry on staleness but also made me think about some more architectural smells. Gil Tene from Azul spoke about the maximum size of VMs we all use. ...

I was reading Requirements–we don’t need them! by Andrew Woodward of 21apps recently, which talks about the importance of having a visionary product owner on your SharePoint project to ensure that it delivers the right thing. That all makes sense and ...

It's not long now until the GOTO Copenhagen 2012 conference and I'm really honoured to be hosting the software architecture track. The vision for the track is to get people in the software architecture role to share their experiences of how they approach ...

I recently set a challenge ... describe how you design software in the time it takes you to have a coffee break. I've posed this same question to a few people myself and answering it is really tough. And that, I think, is kind of worrying. Related to ...

I ran an interactive, gamestorming session a couple of weeks ago at Skills Matter to help us answer the question of "how much up front design is enough?". It was a lot of fun! Since the session was interactive, there was only a short amount of ...

For a second year, I'm pleased to say that I'll be running Software Architecture for Developers in Jersey. If you want to get a feel for what we'll be covering during this two day training course, take a look at the following blog entries. The ...