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Unlock Your Potential as a Practical Software Architect

"The Practical Software Architect's Handbook" is your guide to bridging the gap between business ideas and software solutions. This book provides a collection of actionable tools and techniques designed to enhance your skills in software design, organizational processes, communication, and documentation. Move beyond buzzwords and complicated enterprise frameworks to a modern, lightweight approach to software architecture. Whether you are an aspiring or experienced architect, this handbook equips you with the strategies you need to succeed.

Topics Covered:

• Intro - Tools and Frameworks: Understand various tools used in software development, project management, and product design, and explore the gaps between them and software solutions. Learn about solution-oriented tools, diagramming tools, and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• The Stakeholder’s Interview: Learn how to conduct effective interviews with stakeholders to gather insights, expectations, and identify pain points.
• Vision and Goals: Discover how to explore and define organizational goals and product vision to align with software architecture. Understand the risks of unclear goals and how to establish clear objectives.
• Visualizing your system: Master the art of creating high-level system diagrams to document the current state of your software, including best practices and tips for co-creation and storytelling.
• Principles and Guidelines: Learn how to set the foundation for your architecture vision by establishing principles and guidelines, identifying current issues and opportunities, and creating a technology adoption table.
• ... and more coming soon!

This book is a work in progress. Buy it now at a discounted price, and get new updates as soon as they're ready. The book is also available on LeanPub.

About the Author

Moisés Macero

@moises_macero

I'm developing software since I was a kid, when my parents bought me a Spectrum ZX (in which I also played great videogames...). I've worked at startups, where a developer is a real full-stack developer (from frontend to backend, from building to maintaining, from the cave to customer-facing meetings) and also at big companies, where stability and keeping high product quality standards is a must. Along my career I have been involved usually in development, design and architecture, for small and huge projects. Worked in waterfall and agile environments.

Now I'm working at a Dutch company as Solutions Architect for a project based on microservices. I like keeping ways of working as practical as possible but, at the same time, producing proper documentation and sharing knowledge.

I'm the author of the blog about software development The Practical Developer: https://thepracticaldeveloper.com and the book Learn Microservices with Spring Boot.