Overview
 While
many developers and managers have a clear idea regarding the characteristics,
practices, and corresponding set of responsibilities of their own roles, the
picture is often vague when it comes to software architects. What is the single
most important task facing the software architect? What is the division of labor
and responsibilities between the architect and the project manager? How much the
architecture should be tied in to the particulars of the underlying technology
used, or for that matter, for the specifics of the business? where is the
hand-off point between the architect and the developers? What are the necessary
skills and analysis tools employed by an architect? How do you validate the
design before construction? How do methodologies such as service-orientation
affect the design and development process? What are software architecture best
practices, guidelines and pitfalls? How do you go about designing world-class
systems? How do you make the transition from abstract design patterns and
concepts to concrete development decisions? The class answers the above
questions using a combination of frontal lecture and interactive and accelerated
design sessions. Conducted in the style of a classic Master Class, the IDesign
architect will provide the common foundation of modern service-oriented
applications required by software architects.
Noteworthy is that this class is called the Architect’s Master Class (as opposed
to the Architecture Master Class) because it is dedicated to the core body of
knowledge required of today’s modern software architects, knowledge that
transcends mere design patterns and architecture. The core body of knowledge
comprises of three elements: development process, technology, and finally
analysis & design. The class shows the architect how to take an active
leadership role on all three aspects, as a continuum, since when executing a
design, one cannot separate process from design from technology – all three have
to work in concert. The class agenda reflects these three elements. The first
day is devoted to the accompanying service-oriented development process and the
required project management skills. The second and third days are an immersion
in key modern design patterns and development skills, using WCF as a reference
model, as a way of illustrating the design ideas and best practices, ensuring
the architect is a qualified technical lead. These include interface-based
design and factoring, service oriented design, general design principal and
patterns concerning reliability, data transfer, instance management scalability
and throughput, availability and responsiveness, loosely coupled systems, fault
propagation, transaction management, concurrency management, security scenarios,
and the new Windows Azure AppFabric service bus. In the fourth and fifth day the
IDesign architect will explain the IDesign original approach to large system
analysis and design and the IDesign Method™ for capturing the design decisions.
The IDesign architect will interactively design a system by soliciting from the
students requirements for an actual application, and proceeding in real time to
design the system, outlining the architecture that addresses the requirements,
discussing logical tiers, security, interoperability, scalability, transactions,
and other aspects of a service-oriented application, You will see how to
approach rarely discussed topics such as allocation of services to assemblies,
allocation of services to processes, transaction boundaries, identity
management, authorization and authentication boundaries and more. The class ends
by building a vertical slice of that system. You will also receive the IDesign
documents and diagram templates, tools and samples and reference projects.
Don’t miss on this unique opportunity to learn from the IDesign architects,
share their passion for architecture and software engineering, gain from their
experience of numerous design projects and profound insight on architecture,
technology and its applications.
Target Audience
Any .NET architect, project lead or senior developer would benefit greatly from the class.
Duration
5 very intense days.
Offering
Available as an on-site class and as a public class. The next public class
will be in Oslo, Norway in August 30 - September 3 2010. Click
here for registration and additional information. |