The Key to the Prisoners’ Dilemma
Is architecture a trade-off against business value or the key to unlocking it? This talk uses the Prisoner’s Dilemma to reframe one of the most persistent tensions in software development. Learn how to turn competing priorities into shared outcomes, and how those dynamics are evolving in the age of AI.
Independent Architect
Sonya Natanzon is a software architect and engineering leader with extensive experience in the healthcare sector, where she builds and leads teams working on medical device software, system integrations and EMR/EHR interoperability. She works at the intersection of the social and technical sides of software engineering, drawing on approaches such as Domain-Driven Design, Team Topologies and the Architecture Advice Process to evolve both systems and the teams that build them.
She shares her experience regularly at international software architecture conferences and industry meetups, where she focuses on requirements analysis for architects and on improving how software is designed, built and operated in complex, regulated environments.