Speaker
Abstract
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralised architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation. Through stories from our own journey, we’ll share how decentralising decisions improved alignment across teams, empowered faster decision-making, and fostered a culture of ownership. We'll share lessons learned implementing lightweight governance, defining clear architectural guardrails through architectural principles, and the tools to support decentralised decisions.
Interview
To lead the development of a scalable SaaS platform, through guiding, mentoring, and empowering our teams.
Sharing our experiences of embracing change through autonomous, empowered teams and decentralized architectural decision-making has transformed our processes and improved our ability to deliver value. By discussing the challenges we’ve faced and the strategies we’ve developed, we hope to inspire others who are navigating similar transitions.
Architects and Engineers looking to scale the practice of architecture or looking for an alternative to "Ivory Tower" architecture.
An understanding of how they can use Architectural Principles, Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) and create an advice forum for decision-making. Inspiring them to try a new approach to the practice of architecture.
The obvious answer is AI, but we're specifically interested in legacy modernization and keeping platforms current.
Topics
QCon London 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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