ADRs: The Why and How

This presentation explains Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), showing how to create and maintain them and why they matter. It highlights their role in documenting decisions, capturing the reasons behind them, and helping teams reassess choices as business needs or technologies change.

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Venkat Subramaniam

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Thursday, October 8, 16:30-17:20

TBA 9

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Decisions, decisions, decision, that is our life every day. But, what is worse than making a bad decision is not remembering why we made a decision, good or bad. Architectural Decision Records are highly important to document the decisions we make, to support the decisions, to bring in necessary and sufficient reasons, and to reevaluate decisions when the business requirements and/or the technologies change. In this presentation we will look at ADRs, how to create them, how to maintain them, and the values they provide.

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Venkat Subramaniam

United States of America

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.