Discover the Secrets of Successful Architecture: Lemon's Enriching Architecture Kata!
Written by
Laura Devriendt
In the world of software development, the term "kata" is known as an exercise that helps professionals improve their skills through repeated practice and reflection. Lemon Academy recently hosted an exciting event: an Architecture Kata. This groundbreaking initiative offered participants the opportunity to enhance their architecture knowledge and skills in an instructive way, based on the principles from renowned books such as "Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach - Neil Ford & Mark Richards" and "Evolutionary Architecture - Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua & Neal Ford." Participating in an Architecture Kata allows teams to collaborate, share knowledge and learn from each other's perspectives. It also provides an opportunity to test, practically apply and measure architectural decisions against specific criteria known as "fitness functions." Key learning points include: translating functional requirements and domain problems into architectural capabilities, awareness of domain problems and their linkage to architectural capabilities, prioritization and trade-offs, and agreement on measurable criteria (fitness functions) so that architecture can continue to be assessed
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When designing software architecture, it is essential to translate functional requirements and domain problems into architectural aspects, also called "architecturalilities." This includes, for example, scalability(Scalability), elasticity(Elasticity), adaptability (Customizability), availability (Availability), etc. By considering these aspects, Lemon can ensure that the architecture has the necessary capabilities to meet stakeholder requirements. It is also important to make the entire team aware of the domain issues and how they are linked to the architectural capabilities, to avoid making decisions based on isolated insights.
When designing an architecture, choices must be made and it is necessary to set priorities. Lemon understands that everything is a trade-off and sometimes compromises must be made. By making the right trade-offs, the company can optimize the architecture for the most critical aspects. To measure project progress and assess where attention or discussion is needed, it is essential to agree on measurable criteria, also known as "fitness functions." This allows Lemon to objectively assess how well the architecture is performing on the various ilities.
An Architecture Kata offers a practical and interactive way to improve architecture skills and explore new concepts and approaches. Would you also like to organize an architecture kata with your company? Check out this website where you can find several interesting cases
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