Introduction
Course Overview
The Saga Begins
Wrapping Up
Lesson 1: The Game Plan
What is Incremental Architecture?
Our Approach
Defining the Goal
Chicken Farm Pop Quiz
Quiz: Interpreting Causal Loop Diagrams
3 attempts allowed
Identifying Stakeholders
Defining the Problem Statement
Wrapping Up
Lesson 2: Enter the Stakeholders
Writer Outline: Lesson 2 progression and story beats
What are stakeholders?
Stakeholder Identification
Gemba Walking and Talking
Stakeholder Mapping
Wrapping Up
Lesson 3: Quality Attributes
Writer Outline: Lesson 3 progression and story beats
Stop yourself before you wreck yourself
What are Quality Attributes?
Defining Quality Attributes
Prioritizing Quality Attributes
Wrapping Up
Lesson 4: High Level Vision
Writer Outline: Lesson 4 progression and story beats
Approach and Preparation
Split the System
Quality Attribute Scenarios
Validating our Understanding
Wrapping Up
Design Along: Crafting a Traceable, Business-Driven Architecture
Design Along: Crafting a Traceable, Business-Driven Architecture
Struggling to bridge the gap between business needs and architectural decisions?
In this hands-on Design Along course, you’ll iteratively craft a traceable, business-driven architecture; learning to document decisions, balance trade-offs, and navigate real-world complexity. All this practical, guided learning in an immersive, stiry-driven format.
The instructor is letting you choose the price you pay for this course!
The instructor is letting you choose the price you pay for this course!
Struggling to bridge the gap between business needs and architectural decisions?
In this hands-on Design Along course, you’ll iteratively craft a traceable, business-driven architecture; learning to document decisions, balance trade-offs, and navigate real-world complexity. All this practical, guided learning in an immersive, stiry-driven format.
About
About the Course
Master the Art of Practical, Business-Driven Architecture.
Many engineers and architects struggle with translating high-level concepts into traceable, actionable decisions. Business stakeholders often lack visibility into why certain architectural choices are made, while developers face challenges bridging design and implementation.
This course bridges that gap by providing a structured, hands-on approach to architectural decision-making, guiding you through real-world trade-offs, business alignment, and progressive documentation.
Instead of treating documentation as an afterthought, this course follows a Design Along methodology, where learners iteratively design, document, and evolve a system. Mirroring how you would tackle a real-world architectural assignment.
What you'll learn
- Progressive Documentation: Learn to document decisions as they evolve rather than waiting until the end.
- Traceable Decisions Framework: Apply the Traceable Decisions methodology to ensure clarity and reasoning in architectural choices.
- Business-Technical Integration: Bridge functional analysis and implementation by aligning stakeholder needs with technical realities.
- Practical, Real-World Decision-Making: Work through structured yet flexible architectural processes, refining a system step by step.
Structure and Methodology
This course is based on the Canary System, a fictional but realistic early warning detection system designed to help organizations monitor operational processes before issues escalate.
Through realistic decision-making scenarios, you will:
- Explore the business and technical context of system architecture.
- Apply Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to document trade-offs, constraints, and justifications.
- Learn from cross-domain expertise spanning: Business-driven functional analysis, Practical architecture design, and Use case-driven technical implementation
This course is ideal for senior developers, aspiring architects, and technical leads who want to build business-aligned, adaptable architectures, and learn to document decisions like they'd happen in the real world.
Price
Course Price
With Membership
Free!
$29.00
You pay
$29.00Author earns
$23.20Instructor
About the Instructor
Stijn Dejongh
Stijn Dejongh is a systems thinker, architect, and quiet coach.
He writes about software development, team dynamics, and the messy space between architecture and human behavior. His work blends technical clarity with psychological insight, always rooted in the realities of complex systems.
Stijn prefers honest questions over polished slogans. He values mentorship over management, coherence over cleverness, and structure over spectacle. His writing lives at the intersection of calm, clarity, and context. You can find more of his work at patterns.sddevelopment.be, where he shares architectural practices, thought frameworks, and reflections on building better systems — and becoming a better part of them.
Material
Course Material
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