Architect Cafe #11: The Architect's Secret Stash

A presentation on organizing architecture deliverables through repositories and the architecture content metamodel, providing a structured approach to managing architecture documentation and knowledge. The session will explore practical strategies for reusing designs, maintaining architecture repositories, and driving adoption across development teams through interactive breakout discussions.

Event Overview

Architecture Content Metamodel

The presentation will explore the architecture content metamodel, emphasizing how it provides a structured way to manage architecture deliverables. This framework offers consistency in how architecture information is organized, stored, and retrieved across projects and teams.

Key Benefits & Strategies

Reusing Designs for Consistency will focus on building on proven patterns and solutions, maintaining consistency across projects, and reducing redundant architecture work. By leveraging a well-maintained repository, teams can avoid reinventing solutions to common problems.

Maintaining Repositories will cover conducting regular audits for quality, leveraging community input for improvements, and keeping architecture documentation current and relevant. Effective repository maintenance ensures that architecture knowledge remains accessible and valuable over time.

Driving Adoption will explore using gamification to encourage engagement, implementing training programs to build capability, and creating a culture of architecture documentation where contributing to and using the repository becomes a natural part of the development process.

Interactive Breakout Sessions

The event will feature breakout sessions where attendees will address practical challenges in implementing architecture repositories. Key discussion topics will include defining Solution Architect responsibilities clearly, coordinating delivery across multiple teams, managing distributed architecture efforts, and ensuring consistent approaches across the organization.

Agenda

14:00 - 14:15
Architecture Content Metamodel Overview

14:15 - 14:45
Repository Strategies & Best Practices

14:45 - 15:00
Break

15:00 - 16:00
Breakout Sessions: Practical Challenges

16:00 - 16:30
Summary & Q&A