Craft 2025 - Neal Ford
Neal Ford
Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
About Neal Ford

Neal is a Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals, delivering technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. He speaks at many conferences.

Workshop
Architecture as Code: Making Architecture Work
Topics:
Software Delivery Craft Matters
Level: General

You select the most appropriate architecture style, you make effective architecture decisions, yet somehow the architecture of your system doesn’t work—it fails to meet your scalability requirements, it’s hard to change, it’s hard to extend, and it isn’t aligned with the new business direction. Why? Your organization has failed at architectural alignment. Software architecture is much more than th...