Being Agile About System Qualities
Learn practical techniques for identifying system quality concerns such as scalability, performance, or usability and how to integrate work on system qualities into your agile project.

Exploiting Fast and Slow Thinking
Learn how fast and slow thinking affects your reactions, behaviors, and decision-making and techniques for counteracting fast thinking glitches.

Agile Architecture Workshop: A Pragmatic Approach
Learn small and larger project or program practices and techniques for agilely defining, refining, and evolving your software architecture.

Skills for the Agile Designer
Acquire techniques for seeing and shaping solutions, developing a common design vision, monitoring design debt, and focusing on the important stuff.

Pragmatic Test-Driven Development
Learn two different testing rhythms: test-frequently and test-first. Understand how refactoring affects tests and how acceptance and system quality tests support and enhance core TDD practices.

Developing and Communicating Software Architecture
Learn how to develop an essential architecture and explain it to diverse stakeholders.

Practical UML
UML 2.0 in 1 day for the healthy skeptic. Move beyond overly simpllstic or clunky, cluttered diagrams.

The Art of Telling Your Design Story
Create compelling, convincing, and nuanced design presentations.

Development teams need to create solid designs and sustainable architectures while developing a rhythm and predictability to their work. Whether you are an agile team or not, we can help.Wirfs-Brock Associates specializes in building software architecture and design expertise and analysis skills through training, mentoring, individual and small team coaching and consulting. We help you minimize your software development risks and identify practical solutions to challenging design problems.

Check out our popular workshops and training courses. And ask about our latest workshops: Being Agile About System Qualities and Exploiting Fast and Slow Thinking.

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, founder of Wirfs-Brock Associates, invented the popular development approach called Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) and inadvertently started the xDD meme (TDD, BDD, DDD, etc.) Read about RDD in the book, Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations. RDD offers practical techniques for creating object-oriented and component-based design solutions. Rebecca also introduced the conversational form of use cases which emphasizes user-system interactions and holds agile use case writing workshops around the world.

If you find yourself facing these issues:

Our team is a mix. It\'d be nice if everyone talked about design the same way.
My code speaks for itself, but how can I communicate my design to others?
We need to get better at writing streamlined requirements that developers can use. We need written requirements, but we want to be agile about it.
There\'s not enough design thinking while coding. How can we change that?
We want to improve our strategic design and domain modeling skills.
How can we make sure we\'re paying enough attention to architecture?
Our programmers need better design skills.
We\'d like to focus our architecture efforts on the areas with the most impact.
Can you help us create a flexible design solution?
We need practical training, not theory.


we can help.