Conferences and Events

PLoP 2022 Online Conference October 17-24, 2022
Paper: Observations on growing a software design umwelt by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Essence for Agility Meetup June 29, 2022, 18:00 GMT+1
"New dogs, old tricks" discussion with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Steve Freeman, and Joseph Pelrine
DDD Europe 2022 Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 20-24, 2022
Hands-on Session: Heuristic Hunting for the Curious by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Keynote: Critically Engaging with Models by Mathias Verraes and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference October 11-13, 2021
Tutorial: Being Agile At Software Quality with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Joseph Yoder
XP 2021 Online Conference June 14-18, 2021
Monday Resarch Workshop: Agility with Microservices
Monday Panel: The Stories We Tell: Experience, Research, or Patterns?
Friday Workshop: Architecture decision-making tools and practices for agility and resilience by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Ken Power
DDD Europe Workshop Online, Apr 19&20 and Apr 26&27, 2021
Workshop: Decision-Making Practices for Evolving and Sustaining Architecture by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Ken Power
The Hillside Group Event Online, Feb 26, 2021
Panel: Patterns, Principles, and Agile Connections with Ward Cunningham, Linda Rising, Joseph Yoder, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
OOP 2021 Conference Online, February 8, 2021
Workshop: Distilling Design Heuristics by Modelling by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Hands On DDDEU 2021 Conference Online, February 4, 2021
Workshop: Hands On Heuristic Hunting by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Ágiles 2020 Online, November 1-9, 2020
Panel: The Future of Agile Development,
Talk: Grow Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Workshop: Decision-making practices for evolving and sustaining software architecture with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Ken Power October 20&22, 2020
PLoP 2020 Online Conference October 12-15, 2020
Paper: Should we stop writing patterns? by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Focus Group: The Importance of Domain Modelling in Modern Software Design by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Joseph Yoder
Sharing Agile Experiences October 6, 2020
A Design Conversation with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Alex Bolboaca July 3, 2020
XP 2020 Online Conference June 8-12, 2020
Workshop: Understanding and applying different decision models for increasing organization agility by Ken Power and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
CukenFest 2020 June 3, 2020
Keynote: What You are Doing vs What You Think You are Doing by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
I T.A.K.E. 8th Edition Virtual Conference May 12, 2020
Keynote: Grow Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
DDD Europe 2020 Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 3-7, 2020
Design Heuristics Workshop by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Hands-on Session: Distilling Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Keynote: Elephants, Patterns, and Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Christian Kohls
YOW! Australia Conferences 2019 Sydney, Dec 5-6; Brisbane, Dec 9-10; Melbourne, Dec 12-13
Talk: Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Talk: JavaScript: Skeletons in the Closet by Allen Wirfs-Brock
Pattern Languages of Programs 2019 Ottawa, Canada, October 7-10, 2019
Workshop: Patterns Bootcamp with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Joseph Yoder
Paper: Who Will Read My Patterns? by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Lise Hvatum
Paper: Elephants, Heuristics, and Patterns by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Christian Kohls
European Conference on Software Architecture 2019 Paris, France, September 9-13, 2019
Paper: An Exploratory Study of Naturalistic Decision Making in Complex Software Architecture Environments by Ken Power and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock preprint
Xebia Expand Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 6, 2019
Session: Cultivating Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Agile 2019 Conference Washington DC, USA, August 5-9, 2019
Session: Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Session: Visual Thinking for the Visually Reticent by Michael Keeling and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Agile Architecting Public Workshop Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 27-28, 2019
O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference San Jose, Ca., USA, June 12, 2019
Keynote: Cultivate Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
XP 2019 Conference Montreal, Canada, May 21-25, 2019
Session: Visual Thinking for the Visually Reticent by Michael Keeling and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Session: Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Panel: The Agile Manifesto: Impacts on Education, Culture, and Software Practices
ICSA 2019 Conference Hamburg, Germany, March 25, 2019
Tutorial: Sense of Place within the Virtuous Circle of Architecture Decision-Making description by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Ken Power
Agile Architecting Public Workshop Brussels, Belgium, March 28-29, 2019

 

Featured Presentations, Writing & News

Observations on growing a software design umwelt, PLoP 2022 essay by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Design and Reality: Essays on Software Design, 2022, book by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Mathias Verraes
Should we stop writing design patterns?, PLoP 2020 essay by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
DDD Europe 2022 Keynote by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Mathias Verraes: Critically Engaging with Models video
RDD, Design Heuristics and More with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Sara Torrey podcast Feb 5, 2021
A Design Conversation with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Alex Bolboaca podcast July 3, 2020
Elephants, Patterns, and Heuristics, PLoP 2019 essay by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Christian Kohls
Who will read my patterns?, PLoP 2019 paper by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Lise Hvatum
An Exploratory Study of Naturalistic Decision Making in Complex Software Architecture Environments by Ken Power and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock paper
A Conversation with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Andrea Goulet and Scott Ford on Legacy Code Rocks about Design Heuristics podcast
Traces, tracks, trails, and paths: An Exploration of How We Might Approach Software Design, PLoP 2018 essay
Even more Patterns for the Magic Backlog, PLoP 2018 pattern paper
Understanding Architecture Decisions in Context: An industry case study of architects' decision-making context paper
A Program Backlog Story with Patterns: Expanding the Magic Backlog Pattern Collection, EuroPLoP 2018 pattern paper
Agile Alliance Experience Reports: A Conversation with Nienke Alma about Life in the POCLAC podcast
Agile Alliance Experience Reports: A Conversation with Serena Godfrey and folks about Servant Leadership at Vistaprint podcast
Agile Alliance Experience Reports: A Conversation with Two Remote Mobbers, Sal Freudenberg and Matt Wynne podcast
Agile Alliance Experience Reports: A Conversation with Chris Lucien on Learning to Experiment podcast
Agile Alliance Experiences Reports: A Conversation with Avraham Poupko on Rethinking Diversity podcast
Are Software Patterns Simply a Handy Way to Package Design Heuristics?, PLoP 2017 essay
Pattern Stories and Sequences for the Backlog: Applying the Magic Backlog Patterns, PLoP 2017 pattern paper
Explore DDD 2017 Keynote: Cultivating Your Design Heuristics video
One Product Owner's Journey, August 2017, blog
Founding a Code Bootcamp Based on Agile Values, July 2017, blog
More Patterns for the Magic Backlog, PLoP 2016 pattern paper
QA to AQ Part Six: Becoming Agile at Quality "Enabling and Infusing Quality," PLoP 2016 pattern paper
QA to AQ Part Five: Becoming Agile at Quality "Growing Quality Expertise," AsianPLoP 2016 pattern paper
Patterns to Develop and Evolve Architecture During an Agile Software Project, PLoP 2015 pattern paper
Growing a Mob without Losing the Good, February 2017 blog
What is it Like to be an Introverted Mob Programmer?, March 2016 blog
Growing the Agile Mindset: Leading by Example, February 2016 blog
QA to AQ Part Four: Shifting From Quality Assurance to Agile Quality "Prioritizing Qualities and Making them Visible," PLoP 2015 pattern paper
Patterns to Build the Magic Backlog, EuroPLoP 2015
pattern paper
QA to AQ Part Three: Shifting from Quality Assurance to Agile Quality "Tearing Down The Walls," SugarLoafPLoP 2014
pattern paper
QA to AQ Part Two: Shifting from Quality Assurance to Agile Quality "Measuring and Monitoring Quality," PLoP 2014
pattern paper
SATURN 2015 Presentation: Exploiting Fast and Slow Thinking video
QA to AQ: Patterns about transitioning from Quality Assurance to Agile Quality, AsianPLoP 2014 pattern paper
One Step at a Time Towards One Bug Per Month, December, 2014 blog
Discovering Alexander's Properties in Your Code and Your Life, Smalltalks 2014, Argentina video
Object Design Roots and New Directions, Smalltalks 2014, Argentina video
Much Ado About Agile IX - Open Panel Discussion, October 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada video
Patterns for Sustaining Architectures, PLoP 2012 pdf
QA and Devs Working Together, June, 2014 blog
Welcome to the Agile Experiences Program, April, 2014 blog
Twenty Years of Pattens' Impact, IEEE Software Impact Column, Nov/Dec 2013 pdf
Why We Need Architecture (and Architects) on Agile Projects at Agile 2013 slides
Maintaining Your Code Clint Eastwood Style keynote at I.T.A.K.E 2013 video slides
Agile PT Interview

From The Responsible Designer Blog:
Critically Engaging with Models- September 20, 2022
2021 Year End Review- December 30, 2021
Models and Metaphors- December 20, 2021
Too Much Salt?- December 17, 2021
Design and Reality- September 13, 2021
Is it Noise or Euphony?- August 26, 2021
Noisy Decisions- August 18, 2021
Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts- June 14, 2021
Design (Un)Certainty and Decision Trees- August 7, 2020
Reconciling New Design Approaches with What You Already Know- May 7, 2019
What we say versus what we do- April 25, 2019
Nothing ever goes exactly by the book- April 19, 2019
Writing, Remembering, and Sharing Design Heuristics- April 12, 2019
What do typical design heuristics look like?- April 4, 2019
Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics Toolkit- March 20, 2019
What's going on here?- June 23, 2016
Being Agile About Documenting and Communicating Architecture- June 7, 2016
Growing a Company Based on Values- May 16, 2016
It's Not That Simple: The Interplay Between Fast and Slow Thinking- May 10, 2016
On Thinking- April 25, 2016
Digging In- September 9, 2015
Early Performance Testing At Agile 2015 - August 14, 2015
Shift Left: Testing Earlier in Development - June 18, 2015
Future Commitment- June 16, 2015
Mob Programming: The Unruly Experience- June 5, 2015
What does karaoke have to do with being agile?- June 3, 2015
Life in the Mob- May 12, 2015
Can Nudging Help Us Make Better Choices?- January 9, 2015
Making New Behaviors Stick- December 15, 2014
What good Is knowing if it's not half the battle?- December 12, 2014
Beware of Dogma. No. Be aware of dogma.- October 17, 2014
Why Process Matters- October 16, 2014
When in Rome...- June 26, 2014
Making Strong, Lively Centers- April 9, 2014
What Makes for Lively Centers?- March 26, 2014
Discovering Lively Centers- March 20, 2014
Why Domain Modeling?- February 27, 2013
Domain-Driven Design Applied- February 27, 2013
Evangelizing New (Software Architecture) Ideas and Practices
- May 29, 2012
How far should you look ahead - March 16, 2012
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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