Others have written about risk-driven architecture before, but only Michael Keeling uses his taste for guacamole to illustrate it. Design It! is full of pragmatism, personal experience, and useful tips. This book has something to offer anyone involved in software development, and it’s fun to read.

Of the numerous books that talk about software architecture, there are a select few that are really, really good. This book runs the complexity of software architecture through the real world of software development and distills it into real, understandable concepts that can be applied to everyday software engineering practices. In Design It!, Michael gives you his recipes for applying these concepts, providing pragmatic guidance for success in a very tough discipline.

What I like most about Michael’s style is that it is inclusive: everyone on the team should become a better architect. His book gives us hands-on ways to achieve this by collecting many great ideas and tools that arose from the community. This book is for everyone who wants to build better software together.

This book covers the essentials of design and software architecture that all development teams need to know. It is definitely going on the recommended reading list for all my teams and anyone we bring on board!

What sets Design It! apart for me is its fresh perspective—that the technical undertaking of building software is an intensely social activity. Michael manages to uniquely fuse the mechanics of software architecture together with the chemistry of design thinking. You’ll learn to move from architecture viewpoints into design mindsets and from managing architecture life cycles into telling architecture stories. This is a must-have reference book on modern software architecting.

This book is timely, valuable, accessible, and excellent. It is a clear, informed, and practical guide to the principles and practice of software architecture, for the aspiring architect as well as the established practitioner who wants to deepen and refresh his or her skills. Michael Keeling takes the reader on a clear and results-oriented journey, from the fundamentals of the field to the state of the art.

Invaluable for growing your career and your team! The perfect balance between design theory and practical activities.