Software Architecture Training and Consulting

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Training Services Overview

Enterprise Architecture Workshop

Software Architecture Workshop

Role of the Architect Workshop

Architecture Vision Workshop

Architecture Fundamentals Class

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Consulting Services Overview

Software Architecture Assessment

Architecture Program Management (or see our brochure --services.pdf 63kb

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OOPSLA 2000

Architecture Tutorial

Architect Workshop

EAC 2001

Architect Seminar

Architecture Consulting Services
Overview

Bredemeyer Consulting specializes in helping organizations develop their architectural competency. An organization's architecture competency includes, but is not limited to, the competency of its architects. For the business to get any benefit from the competency of its architects, the rest of the organization must integrate architecture into their practices. We help architects do their current project better (architecture services), offer professional development programs for architects and architecture core competency development programs for organizations:

Architecture Services

Architecture team consulting
- Visual Architecting Process (what to do, when and how)
- architecture description and UML modeling
- architecture patterns
- architecture trade-off analysis
- heuristics and best practices
- architecture risk management
Assessments and reviews
- rhythm-setting architecture reviews
- architecture assessment
Architect mentoring

Architect Competency Development Programs

Architect role definition
Architect competency development planning
Architect training curriculum
Mentoring program for architects
Architecture Congress
Community-of-Practice Programs
- Business entity
- Corporate-wide
- Regional

Business Core Competency Development Programs

Architecture core competency assessment and planning
Organizational design and change management consulting
Training curriculum for managers
Management coaching (on-the-job)
- strategic implications of architecture
- managing in the context of architecture
- architecture and project lifecycle planning
Training curriculum for development community

Architecture Program Management Services

Architecture project leadership
Architecture project acceleration
- project launch, team building
- architecture project planning
- team facilitation and consensus building
Architect role definition and charter statement

Cross-Industry Competency Programs

Architecture Forums and Summits
Architecture Benchmarking

For more information on any of these services, please call Bredemeyer Consulting at (812) 335-1653.

Software Architecture Assessment

An architecture, no matter how clever and elegant, is only good if it meets the objectives of its stakeholders. If management requires an architecture that will decrease the time-to-market of follow-on products but it is not extensible, the architecture has failed. If developers cannot understand the architecture, it has failed. If users are frustrated by slow transactions under average conditions, it is quite possible that the architecture is the root of the problem. Our architecture assessment technique helps you to uncover architectural issues early, so that they can be remedied before cast in expensive-to-change code or more costly customer dissatisfaction and poor business results.

The assessment duration depends on the status of your architecture. If the documentation is out-of-date or non-existent, the first task is to help you (re)document the architecture. Also, if you never explicitly captured the requirements on the architecture, the next task is to elicit and prioritize the requirements and known issues with the architecture. Finally, we evaluate the architecture with respect to the prioritized requirements. Our preferred approach is to teach you how to conduct your own architecture assessments by coaching you through a set of evaluations and enabling you to complete the assessment with your own team.

For more information, call Bredemeyer Consulting at (812) 335-1653.