Bytesize Architecture Sessions are a workshop format that help teams understand the systems they work on. Each session focuses on a small slice of a system. After some sessions your team will become more homogeneous in the understanding of their systems, grow a consistent vocabulary and ultimately build tools to design the future together.
A session lasts between 45 and 90 minutes, and has four well defined parts: Session Goal, Alone Together, Consensus and Summary. You can model your systems using different tools. I suggest starting with C4 Diagrams.
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A great intro talk with some context about why and how Bytesize Architecture Sessions were created.
A more in-depth talk with great questions and answers after the inital presentation.
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Why should you use Bytesize Architecture Sessions?
Running your first few sessions
Who organises Bytesize Architecture Sessions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Posts
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Talk about SpiderMonkey and how they use Bytesize Sessions by Daniel Minor
SpiderMonkey Byte-Sized Architectures [by Daniel Minor] Daniel gave a talk in Tokyo as part of JSConf/TC39 where he described how the team he is part of uses Bytesize Architecture Sessions.
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Experience report of Using Bytesize Architecture Sessions by Jean de Barochez at Payfit
This is an article by Jean de Barochez, where he describes how his team uses Bytesize Architecture Sessions at PayFit.
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Using Bytesize Sessions to improve documentation practices by Jean de Barochez at Payfit
This is an article by Jean de Barochez, where he describes his thoughts and practices when it comes to documentation and how he uses Bytesize Architecture Sesssions in the context of documentation.
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