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Thinking Like an Architect

Talk by Gregor Hohpe

A recorded talk about architecture as a way of thinking: connecting levels, sketching, preserving options, using models, and recognizing tradeoffs.

What to look for

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Use models to improve a decision rather than to make a diagram look complete.
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Move between executive consequences and implementation details without losing either.

Keep in mind

The speaker’s lenses are practical reasoning tools, not a fixed architecture method. The original page includes a transcript.

Put it to work

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Explain one technical choice at both the implementation level and the business-decision level, then check what was lost in translation.

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