The job “Software Architect” was rated as the number one job by a recent CNN survey. Yet no clear path exists for moving from developer to architect. Why? Because software architecture is massive multidisciplinary subject with no clear definition or job description, making it difficult to chart a course for undertaking all of the learning required to become an effective software architect.
This intensive hands-on 2-day training course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and roadmap necessary to become an effective software architect. Being a software architect is much more than just drawing boxes and lines. It’s about thinking like an architect, being a leader, and understanding the architectural elements, patterns, and styles necessary to create effective software architectures. Through interactive course materials and architecture exercises, this course will teach you both the technical aspects of software architecture as well as the soft skills of architecture.
Knowing what architecture pattern best fit your situation is critical to the success of your architecture. In this course you will gain an in-depth understanding of many different architecture styles and patterns, including event-driven, microkernel, space-based, microservices, and service-based architectures. You will learn how each pattern works, the major characteristics of each pattern, and how to use each architecture style to create an effective software architecture that matches your business needs and requirements.
From a soft skills perspective you will learn how important leadership, communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills are to a software architect, as well as some of the techniques for acquiring these skills. You will also learn many other soft skills techniques, such as how to think like an architect, make effective architecture decisions, and how to make development teams effective
Whether you are on the path of developer to architect or already an architect, this course will provide you with the necessary practical hands-on real-world technical and soft-skills knowledge to quickly become an effective software architect.
Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Architectural Thinking
Unit 3: Architecture Characteristics
Unit 4: Component-Based Thinking
Unit 5: Architecture Styles
Unit 6: Diagramming Software Architecture
Unit 7: Making Architecture Decisions
Unit 8: Architecture Soft Skills
Unit 9: Summary and Wrap-up
This course is for software developers that want to become software architects and for software architects that want to focus on problems within distributed architectures such as microservices and event-driven systems.
