Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Rebecca Parsons, the Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtWorks and the co-author of “Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change” and chat about the following:

• Rebecca’s keynote talk at YOW! “The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture“
• Evolutionary Architecture is the next stage on applying Agile practices to software development at the systems level and be able to respond to changes in the environment that affect the architecture
• Need to determine for your system what constitutes good, fitness functions are the documentation and tests to ensure your system meets those characteristics
• Need to move the needle on architecture, need to develop tools and techniques to decompose the role
• Agile Alliance is looking at what it means to truly be an international organisation (there are now affiliates in Brazil and New Zealand), expanding conferences from the large North American conference to OnAgile and Deliver:Agile and member initiatives to support local events such as Agile Open Space, Agile Conference Sponsorship, Community Group Support Initiative and Speaker Reimbursement
• YOW! CTO Summit talk “The CTO is Dead: Long Live the CTO“
• CTO role is more now to set technical direction by setting up communication channels to mine insights that can be rolled out and presented to the market
• ThoughtWorks Tech Radar started as a hot technology list of what ThoughtWorkers would love to work on, became a visual radar that is now released twice a year, starts with 250-300 items and they try to get it down to 100 items, something will fade after being in the adopt ring more than twice, the radar is also available as an open source tool or radar as a service
• Women leave technology at double the rate as men leave technology, mostly because they are not treated well in the environment
• Anita Borg Institute Top Company for Women Technologists award
• What does it mean to be Agile in new technologies like machine learning and data science?

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