I was privileged to co-present on February 4th with IASA Austin chapter president, Brandon Satrom, at the first ever IASA Austin ITARC conference.  Our presentation was titled “Keeping Architectures Relevant: Using Domain-Driven Design and Emergent Architecture” and was intended to be a helpful introduction to some key ideas in each of these areas, geared particularly towards an audience of software and enterprise architects.

We had a great time, and recieved some very helpful feedback after the session. In particular, we realized that we took more time than expected to explain Ubiquitous Language. There also seemed to be more interest in StoryTesting using Cucumber than I was expecting. We found that we needed to clarify our terminology around how we use the word ‘domain’ (I will blog about this soon).

The presentation was an adaptation of many of the ideas from our forthcoming Architecture Journal article (March 2010 edition). Once the article becomes available online then I’ll post the link.

In the meantime, if you attended our session then please post your comments here. I would love to hear what you thought.