Emergent Design and Evolutionary Architecture

Most of the software world has realised that Big Design Up Front (BDUF) doesn’t work well in software. But lots of developers struggle with this notion when it applies to architecture and design, surely you can’t start coding, right? You need some level of understanding before you can start work.

ThoughtWorks Luminary and Conference Presenter Extraordinaire Neal Ford explored the current thinking about Emergent Design and Evolutionary Architecture, including:

• Proactive approaches with test driven development
• Reactive approaches including both refactoring and composed methods
• Strategies and techniques for allowing design to emerge from projects as they proceed, keeping your code in sync with the problem domain
• Real world examples of these techniques in action
  

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