Kurs: The Architect`s Master Class

While many developers and managers have a clear idea regarding the characteristics and practices, and corresponding set of responsibilities of their own roles, the picture is often vague when it comes to software architects.

What is the single most important task facing the software architect? What is the division of labor and responsibilities between the architect and the project manager? How much the architecture should be tied in to the particulars of the underlying technology used, or for that matter, for the specifics of the projects?

What are the necessary skills and analysis tools employed by an architect? How do you validate the design before construction? How do methodologies such as service–orientation affect the design and development process? What are software architecture best practices, guidelines and pitfalls? How do you go about designing world–class systems? How do you make the transition from abstract design patterns and concepts to concrete development decisions? The class answers the above questions using a combination of frontal lecture and interactive and accelerated design sessions. Conducted in the style of a classic Master Class, the IDesign architect will provide the common foundation of modern service–oriented applications required by software architects.

Noteworthy is that this class is called the Architect’s Master Class (as opposed to the Architecture Master Class) because it is dedicated to core body of knowledge required of today’s architects, knowledge that transcends mere design patterns and architecture. The core body of knowledge comprises of three elements: development process and project leadership skills, technology, and finally analysis and design. The class agenda reflects these thee elements. The first day is devoted to the accompanying service–oriented development process and the required project management skills. The second and third days are an accelerate course in WCF, ensuring the architect is a qualified technical lead in all aspects of WCF, such as interface–based design and factoring, service oriented design, general design principal and patterns concerning reliability, data transfer, instance management scalability and throughput, availability and responsiveness, loosely coupled systems, fault propagation, transaction management, concurrency management and security scenarios. In the fourth and fifth day the IDesign architect will explain the IDesign original approach to large system analysis and design and the IDesign Method™ for capturing the design decisions.

The IDesign architect will interactively design one or two systems by soliciting from the students requirements for an actual application, and proceeding in real time to design the system, outlining the architecture that addresses the requirements, discussing logical tiers, security, interoperability, scalability, transactions, and other aspects of a service–oriented application. Lastly, you will see how to convert and execute on the design diagrams a vertical slice of the system design. Students will see how to approach rarely discussed topics such as allocation of services to assemblies, allocation of services to processes, transaction boundaries, identity management, authorization and authentication boundaries and more.

Don’t miss on this unique opportunity to learn from the IDesign architects, who share their experience from numerous design projects and offer a profound insight on architecture, technology and its applications.

Target Audience
Any .NET architect, project leader or senior developer would benefit greatly from the class. The class relies on WCF as a reference model. Prior knowledge of WCF is recommended.

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