Many organizations today strive to establish autonomous development teams who can move as independently of each other as possible.
The goal is to achieve speed, scalability and motivation – but what does architecture governance look like in such a decentralised setup? I’ll discuss how to keep everybody aligned on a shared understanding of the architecture and avoid prescriptive standardisation without getting chaos.
Birgitta is the Global Lead for AI-assisted Software Delivery at ThoughtWorks. She has been building software across all layers for more than 15 years, mainly in the space of large custom-developed websites.
The panel digs into what the approach looks like in practice, and ask whether platform engineering really holds the key to unlocking happy and productive teams. You will leave this session with a better understanding of what platform engineering really is, how it relates to developer happiness, and whether it’s the right route to go down for your org.
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Birgitta Boeckeler gives an overview of what is actually possible today and walks through four capabilities of Large Language Models that can help us be more effective at software delivery.
Lutz Hühnken talks about the importance of a strategic approach to software architecture, that prevents teams from becoming architecture firefighters, who spent an excessive amount of energy applying short-term fixes to architectural problems.