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Simon is an independent software development consultant specializing in software architecture - specifically technical leadership, communication, and lightweight, pragmatic approaches to software architecture. Simon is the author of "Software Architecture for Developers", a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership, the balance with agility and communicating software architecture with sketches, diagrams, and models. He is also the creator of the C4 software architecture model and the founder of Structurizr, a SaaS product to create web-based software architecture diagrams using code. ...more

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Today's software developers are the ivory tower architects of tomorrow

Having run my software architecture kata for thousands of people across the globe, I can now pretty much predict what's going to happen. During the initial iteration, groups of people are asked to design a software solution given a set of requirements, with the output of this exercise being one or more diagrams to illustrate their solution. Literally moments before the exercise starts, we talk abo

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	Software Architecture for Developers: Volume 1 - Technical leadership and the balance with agility 3.87 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Architecture for Developers: Volume 2 - Visualise, document and explore your software architecture 3.81 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The C4 model for visualising software architecture 4.61 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Professional JSP by Simon Brown (Goodreads Author), Jayson Falkner 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pro JSP 2 by Simon Brown (Goodreads Author), Sam Dalton, Sing Li 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Architecture for Developers 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Unlike the medieval building industry though, the software development industry lacks an explicit way for people to progress from being junior developers through to software architects. We don’t have a common apprenticeship model.”
― Simon Brown, Software Architecture for Developers: Volume 1 - Technical leadership and the balance with agility

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“As a verb, architecture (i.e. the process, architecting) is about understanding what you need to build, creating a vision for building it and making the appropriate design decisions. All of this needs to be based upon requirements because requirements drive architecture.”
― Simon Brown, Software Architecture for Developers: Volume 1 - Technical leadership and the balance with agility

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“a software architect who codes is a more effective and happier architect”
― Simon Brown, Software Architecture for Developers: Volume 1 - Technical leadership and the balance with agility

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