Architectural fitness in practice – SWA Meetup 28.01.2026

🧠 Architectural fitness in practice – Defining & Measuring your architecture goals with fitness functions

🗓️ 28.01.2026

📍kununu, Schottenring 2-6, 1010 Wien

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Abstract

Modern software architecture needs measurable guardrails instead of PowerPoint wishful thinking. In this talk, I’ll show how to use fitness functions as a systematic approach to derive the right metrics for you to turn architecture goals into something concrete and verifiable.
I’ll show you my pragmatic catalog of building blocks you can use and combine to design your own fitness functions and why these are the most important dimensions to consider in practice.
On this basis, I’ll introduce a fitness function testing pyramid, walk through concrete examples of useful checks and metrics, and demonstrate how to deliberately use generative AI as an architecture assistant – from generating ideas for fitness functions and target metrics to helping you shape your ideas into concrete metrics to verify.