About this Meetup Group History Members Planned Topics Planned Formats

1. Software Architecture and
Design
Our Meetup Group

2. Oliver Stadie
Software Engineer • Generalist
IT Consulting • Game Developer
waog.net

3. Sponsors - Location & Drinks

4. Sponsors - Pizza

5. Content
● Motivation
● History
● Members
● Planned Topics
● Planned Formats

6. Motivation
Why I founded this group

7. Motivation
● Only few Designers & Architects
o Most are Code Monkeys
o Most of them do a bad job
● A’n’D is refused by most beginners
● Want to meet other A’n’Ds
o Exchange Ideas & Knowledge
● Want to spread the word

8. Motivation
Reality Meetup
Coding
100%

9. Motivation
“Let’s found a group!
Maybe there are two or
three people to meet each
month.”

10. History
The first steps

11. History
“Set up an event or your
group will perish!”

12. History

13. History
“With great power comes
great responsibility.”

14. The members
Who we are

15. About this group - Experience

16. About this Group
Mostly tech people

17. Planned topics
What we’ll talk about

18. Planned topics
● Nothing planned yet
● Vote!
o 0 = Not interested
o 2 = Very interested
o no opinion = maybe I’m interested, not enough
information yet

19. Planned topics
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices

20. Planned topics - vote!
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices
Principles
● Basics of SW A’n’D
● abstract
● axiomatic

21. Planned topics - vote!
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices
● partial solution templates
● special use cases
● pros and cons
● variants

22. Planned topics - vote!
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices
● partial solutions
● integration
● alternatives

23. Planned topics - vote!
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices
● Common Sense: ways to think about SW
A’n’D, like analogies
● Experience: how past experiences where
used for current projects

24. Planned topics - vote!
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your ApplicationYour Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices
● Current and past projects

25. Planned topics - vote!
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices
Anti-Pattern
● How not to do it
● Common mistakes

26. Planned topics - vote!
Patterns
Frameworks,
Libraries,
Technologies
Common
Sense,
EXP
Principles
Your Application Anti-Pattern
Best
Practices
Best
Practices
● Summarized experiences
● Recommendations

27. Planned topics - further topics
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools

28. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
RequirementsRequirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
● From Requirements to SW A’n’D
and back

29. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
Legals
● Patents & Licences
● Court Cases
● Policies

30. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
Philosophy
● Does SW A’n’D make any sense?
● Agile vs. Classic A’n’D
● Trial-and-Error vs. Planning

31. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
Notations
● Diagrams
● Graphs
● Ways to display statics

32. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
Processes
&
Workflows
● Integration of A’n’D into Waterfall,
Scrum, XP, V-Model, etc.
● MDD & Reverse Engineering

33. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
Standards
● UML
● Certificates

34. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
ToolsTools
● Diagram editors
● IDE integrations
● Code Static Tools

35. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
Social
● Why no n00bs?
● How to motivate people for A’n’D?
● Communication

36. Planned topics - vote!
Philosophy
Legals
Processes
&
Workflows
… ?
Requirements
Standards
Social
Notations
Tools
… ?
● anything else?

37. Planned Formats
How we talk about stuff

38. Planned formats
● Nothing planned yet
● Vote!
o 0 = Not interested
o 2 = Very interested
o no opinion = maybe I’m interested, not enough
information yet

39. Planned Formats - Classical Talks
● like today
● solid knowledge ● passive
● boring

40. Planned Formats - Pecha Kucha
● Presentation: 20 pictures, 20 seconds each
● fast knowledge
acquisition
● interesting
● passive
● superficial

41. Planned Formats - Workshops
● visitors do stuff themselves, with supervision
● active
● deep knowledge
● slow knowledge
acquisition
● long preparation

42. Planned Formats - Meet & Beer
● meet without any agenda
● networking
● relaxing
● easy preparation
● no knowledge
● bad scalability

43. Planned Formats - Expositions
● show your stuff at your own table/wall
● various topics
● networking
● passive
● imbalanced

44. Planned Formats - Work together
● do anything you like, without supervision
● EXP exchange
● networking
● random
knowledge
● no executable
results

45. Planned Formats - Create Content
● Create content for this meetup together:
talks, workshops, etc.
● learn
● networking
● improve other
formats
● slow knowledge
acquisition

46. Planned Formats - Beginner Courses
● Introduce newcomers to A’n’D
● Make A’n’D
more popular
● uninteresting for
experienced
members

47. Co-organizers needed
Need help!

48. Meetups organizer check list

49. Meetups organizer check list

50. Thx!

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