Breaking the Architecture Bottleneck • Andrew Harmel-Law & Marit van Dijk

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Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"
Marit van Dijk - Developer Advocate at JetBrains, Java Champion & Open Source Contributor
RESOURCES
Andrew
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellaw
https://andrewharmellaw.github.io

Marit
https://bsky.app/profile/maritvandijk.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/maritvandijk
https://medium.com/@mlvandijk
https://maritvandijk.com

Links
https://facilitatingsoftwarearchitecture.com
https://ruthmalan.com
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse

DESCRIPTION
Andrew Harmel-Law discusses their book "Facilitating Software Architecture" and how traditional architecture approaches often become bottlenecks that slow down high-performing development teams.
Rather than architects making top-down decisions in isolation, they advocate for a facilitation approach centered on the "advice process".
This collaborative method shifts the architect's role from decision-maker to conversation facilitator. The approach has proven successful even in traditional corporate environments, ultimately creating more maintainable code bases where development teams actually enjoy working and can respond effectively to changing requirements.
RECOMMENDED BOOK
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfU

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Problem: Traditional architecture as a bottleneck (00:02:47)

3. Solution: Facilitating Architecture Decisions (00:05:05)

4. 3 key influences on the book (00:12:53)

5. Implementation challenges & organizational culture (00:28:14)

6. Outro (00:38:31)