Shaping and communicating architectural decisions

Communication is a critical skill for architects and tech leads, but it involves much more than simply documenting and diagramming. Seth Dobbs explores the illusion of communication and shares a process for effectively communicating your solutions to different stakeholders.

Success as an architect comes from more than technical expertise and solid ideas. It’s a leadership role that requires effective communication to succeed, a challenge which is made more difficult by the ecosystem that the architect works in. Communication involves much more than simply documenting and diagramming. Architects need to get input from and communicate their thoughts to a wide range of stakeholders, including business representatives, project managers, development team members, and designers. Seth Dobbs explores the illusion of communication and shares a process for effectively communicating your solutions to different stakeholders. If you have trouble getting your development team to buy into your approach, always have the issues you bring to the business owner shot down, or fail to engage the design team, resulting in being given designs that can’t be built on time and on budget, join Seth to learn the tools and strategies you need to become a more effective communicator. Topics include: