Allen Holub

Consultant, teacher, speaker, author

Organizational transformation & improvement
Software architecture

I help you get better at making software, and help you make better software.

My mission is to make you awesome

We provide consulting services, ranging from organizational assessment, to executive coaching, to transformation consulting, to hands-on work with the teams. We also provide a full range of training services.
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Workshops & Classes

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Zero to Microservices in 6 Weeks: Applied Agility

An in-depth immersive-learning workshop where we do real work.

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Conferences

SDD 2018 (London, May 14–18, 2018)
Agile Dev West (Las Vegas, 3-8 June, 2018)
O'Reilly OSCon (Portland, July 16–19, 2018 )
O'Reilly Software Architect (London, October 29–31, 2018 )

User Groups

Nothing scheduled right now. If you'd like me to speak to your group, get in touch.

FEATURED VIDEOS

The Death of Agile: Contrary to popular belief, Agile is not a collection of set practices that you learn from a Scrum trainer. It's way bigger than that, and extends way outside the Engineering Dept. Learn what true agility is.

#NoEstimates: Estimation is both unnecessary and ineffective as a planning tool. Learn the alternatives.

Design by Coding (DbC): Extend the principles of TDD to architectural-level design.

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ALLEN HOLUB

Allen Holub (http://holub.com, @allenholub, allen@holub.com) is an internationally recognized software architect and Agile-transformation consultant. He speaks internationally about these topics and agile-friendly implementation technology (like microservices) and architecture. He provides in-house training and consulting in those areas. He excels at building highly functional Lean/Agile organizations and designing and building robust, highly scalable software suitable for agile environments. He's worn every hat from CTO to grunt programmer, and is an expert-level programmer in many languages and platforms.

Allen is widely published. His works include 10 books, hundreds of articles in publications ranging from Dr. Dobb’s Journal to IBM DeveloperWorks), and video classes for agilitry.com (Agility with Allen) and Pluralsight (Swift in Depth, Picturing Architecture, Object-Oriented Design) and O’Reilly (Design Patterns in the Real World).

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+1 (510) 859-3620
allen@holub.com
@allenholub

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