Craig and Tony talk to Simon Brown at the YOW! 2014 conference in Brisbane. SImon is the author of “Software Architecture for Developers”, creator of the C4 software architecture model and Structurizr. We tracked him down after his talk to talk about:

• YOW! 2014 talk “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
• Create a software guidebook as opposed to big upfront documentation
• Tony is an old BA apparently… Explains a lot 🙂
• If you can’t sketch out your architecture, you don’t understand it
• C4 model was created after observations many archtecture drawings don’t make sense
• Tony shows his age again by referencing Mr. Squiggle (video)
• A tiny percentage of architects understand UML – do you teach them UML or teach them something simple?
• Structurizr replaces drawing boxes in Visio or OmniGraffle, creates the C4 model from Java code and keeps it up to date, other implementations