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From The Responsible Designer Blog:

Agile Architecture Myth #5: Never Look Ahead - March 12, 2012
What is Pragmatic Testing All About? - September 23, 2011
Agile Architecture Myths #4 Because you are agile you can change your system fast! - August 26, 2011
Re-thinking Thinking and Planning - August, 17, 2011
Introducing Landing Zones - July 20, 2011
Software Architecture Stewardship - July 18, 2011

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IEEE Software Design Columns
4 years of design columns by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Popular IEEE Software columns:
The Responsible Designer - November / December 2009

Design for Test - September / October 2009

		New Courses: Pragmatic Test-Driven Development Learn two different testing rhythms: test-frequently and test-first. Understand how refactoring affects tests and how acceptance and system quality tests can support and enhance core TDD practices. Agile Architecture Workshop: A Pragmatic Approach Learn small and larger project or program practices and techniques for agilely defining, refining, and evolving your software architecture. Popular Courses: Skills for the Agile Designer Acquire techniques for seeing and shaping solutions, developing a common design vision, monitoring design debt, and focusing on the important stuff. Writing Agile Use Cases Learn practical techniques for writing clear, concise usage descriptions, conducting wizard-of-oz prototype experiments, and relating use cases to smaller-sized agile user stories and acceptance tests. Developing and Communicating Software Architecture Learn how to develop an essential architecture and explain it to diverse stakeholders. Practical UML UML 2.0 in 1 day for the healthy skeptic. Move beyond overly simpllstic or clunky, cluttered diagrams. The Art of Telling Your Design Story Create compelling, convincing, and nuanced designed presentations.

	Development teams need to create solid designs, communicate with diverse stakeholders, and develop a rhythm and predictability to their work. Wirfs-Brock Associates specializes in building software architecture and design expertise and analysis skills through training, mentoring, small team coaching and consulting. We help you minimize your software development risks and identify practical solutions to challenging design problems. Check out our popular training courses… Developing and Communicating Your Software Architecture, Responsibility-Driven Design, Introduction to OOD and UML, Practical UML, Skills for Agile Designers, and The Art of Telling Your Design Story. Ask about hosting a customized workshop that blends hands-on learning with project specific tasks. And ask about our new Agile Architecture workshop and our Pragmatic Test-Driven Development and Testing Best Practices course. Rebecca Wirfs-Brock invented the popular development approach called Responsibility-Driven Design. Read about it in the book, Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations. RDD offers practical techniques for creating object-oriented and component-based design solutions. Rebecca also introduced the conversational form of use cases which emphasizes user-system interactions and holds agile use case writing workshops around the world. If you find yourself facing these issues… Our team is a mix. It'd be nice if everyone talked about design the same way. My code speaks for itself…but how can I communicate my design to others? We need to get better at writing requirements that developers can use. We need written requirements, but we want to be agile about it. There's not enough design thinking while coding. How can we change that? We want to improve our strategic design and domain modeling skills. I like the idea of becoming more agile, but we're not an agile company. Our programmers need better design skills. We'd like to focus our architecture efforts on the areas with the most impact. We want to move to agile development but are worried how architecture and design activities fit into the picture. Can you help us create a flexible design solution? We need practical training, not theory. …we can help.

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