Teaching Architecture Design using the “Smart Decisions” Game

Architecture design is notoriously difficult to teach and to learn. Most competent architects in industry have deep knowledge won from long years of experience. But if we want architecture design to be methodical and repeatable, we need better methods for teaching it. Simply waiting for an aspiring architect to accumulate 10 or 20 years of experience is not acceptable if we believe that software engineering is a true engineering discipline that can be taught and learned in a reasonable time-frame.