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SUMMARY:Architecture is a Conversation\, Not a Diagram
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marco Nissen\n\nFive things our industry treats as tru
 th about software architecture. None of them hold up. UML was a vendor int
 erop play from 1994\, not a communication tool. Architecture is not an art
 ifact. It is an understanding that lives in conversation. Natural language
  is the only notation everyone in the room already compiles.\nI spent twen
 ty-five years doing architecture. I was a student volunteer at OOPSLA 1998
 . I published a design pattern at EuroPLoP 1999. I believed the box-and-ar
 row gospel for two decades.\nThen I went back and read what Christopher Al
 exander\, Peter Naur\, Alan Kay\, Martin Fowler\, and Rich Hickey actually
  wrote. What I found was uncomfortable: we kept the notation and abandoned
  the meaning.\nThis talk takes five beliefs most teams treat as architectu
 ral truth and pulls them apart. That architecture requires formal notation
 . That it is a visual discipline. That the architect's job is to produce a
 rtifacts. That decisions should be made upfront. That documentation solves
  the knowledge problem.\nI show what the giants actually said\, what I bui
 lt to test the idea (a small experiment called ConvArch)\, and what it tau
 ght me about feedback loops in architecture. I will also be honest about t
 he limits of my own argument. Conversation without verification is just a 
 nicer way to be wrong together. Five people confidently agreeing in a room
  is still a confident guess.\n\nhttps://2026.trondheimdc.no/program/121608
 2/
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