Lightweight Software Reviews with LASR

2025-05-22 - 2025-05-23

LASR (Heide Park Resort Soltau) - Stefan Zörner, Stefan Toth - Deutsch

Description

Quickly achieve presentable review results

Reviews uncover weaknesses in software solutions and validate technical and architectural ideas. Classic approaches from this environment, such as ATAM, are well-founded, but are somewhat heavyweight, sometimes almost ceremonial, especially in agile software projects. Their use often requires many participants, and preliminary work is often necessary. As a rule, the methods only deliver raw results that you and your team have to rework afterwards in order to communicate them.

In this training course, you will learn about LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews), a structured procedure for lightweight software reviews.

We use essences from proven evaluation methods. The approach is leaner than ATAM, but still goal-oriented. It quickly delivers an initial result and offers support material for the evaluation scale, risk identification and result development. You will use it directly in the exercises in this workshop. You and your team can apply LASR immediately afterwards, examine your software system and quickly come to initial conclusions. We will show you a common thread through your review, including possible consolidation points for a higher confidence in the review result where necessary.

As a goodie, you will receive the LASR card set for free with your training.

Several people at one table playing with the LASR card set

Agenda

  • What do architecture reviews do?
  • Overview of evaluation methods
  • What does lightweight mean?
  • The Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews
  • Applying LASR step by step
  • Increasing the confidence of the result (LASR+)
  • When LASR does not fit or is not enough: Indicators for other approaches

Your Trainers

Stefan Zörner

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Architecture documentation, methodical software architecture and cloud applications

  • Architecture Evaluation
  • CPSA Foundation Level
  • Flexible architectures
  • Lightweight Architecture Documentation
  • Lightweight Software Reviews with LASR

From Bayer AG to IBM to embarc. Stefan Zörner looks back on 25 years of IT experience and always looks forward with excitement. He provides support in architecture and implementation issues with the aim of effectively anchoring good architecture approaches in the implementation. In lively workshops, he teaches the tools of the trade and is infectious with his enthusiasm. His pragmatic approach to architecture is very well received.

Stefan Toth

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Evolutionary Architecture, Agile Organizations, ADES

  • Agile Software Architecture
  • Architecture Evaluation
  • Lightweight Software Reviews with LASR
  • Team Topologies Deep Dive
  • Team Topologies in practice

Stefan Toth advises developers, teams and companies on software architecture. Sound, clear and effective. His experience ranges from the banking and insurance sector to security-critical industries and support for internet start-ups. In addition to the broad technological context, his methodological experience from agile projects, architecture assessments and IT transformations is his greatest asset. Stefan is a TTA (Team Topologies Advocate).

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