Presentation Skills

Structure, pacing and the slide that carries the decision.

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Architecture Communication

General material on communicating architecture.

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Architecture Diagrams

Choosing an audience and refusing to mix levels of abstraction.

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C4 Model

Context, container, component and code as four separate diagrams.

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Context Diagrams

The system as one box, with its users and external systems.

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Sequence Diagrams

Ordered message exchange, and walking the failure of each arrow.

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Data-Flow Diagrams

Following the data across trust boundaries rather than the calls.

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Deployment Diagrams

What runs where, in which zone, behind which boundary.

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Communicating Threat Models

Making risk legible to people who will fund or accept it.

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Writing Decision Records

Context, alternatives and consequences, written once and never edited.

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Technical Proposals

A written argument circulated before the decision feels made.

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Architecture Reviews

Reviewing early enough to influence rather than to veto.

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Presenting to Executives

Decision first, cost, risk, and what happens if we do nothing.

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Presenting to Engineers

Mechanism, alternatives rejected, and what you are unsure about.

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Explaining Trade-offs

Naming what was given up, and the condition that would change it.

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Handling Disagreement

Arguing from consequences, and escalating in the room.

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Negotiation

Trading on interests rather than positions, with priced options.

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Documentation Practice

Keeping documents close to the code and honest about staleness.

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Written Communication

Writing that survives being read without you in the room.

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Facilitation

Running a design session that reaches a decision.

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