About
Rhino Research is a consulting and training company focusing on software architecture. Our primary consultant and instructor is Dr. George Fairbanks, who has a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has been teaching software architecture and object oriented design since 1998. More…
Just Enough Software Architecture book
Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach by George Fairbanks.
Buy the hardback from Amazon for $34.50 or the e-book for $19.50.
Public Talks
- 9 Feb 2010: Boulder Java User Group – Design Fragments.
- 4 Mar 2010: CU Boulder Colloquium – Design Fragments.
- 6 May 2010: IASA Denver ITARC — Architecture Haiku
- 21 May 2010: SEI SATURN conference – Risk Driven Architecture.
- 14-15 June 2010: AgileRoots 2010 — Architecturally Evident Coding Style in Salt Lake City
- 21 July 2010: Northern Colorado Architects Group — Architecture Haiku in Ft. Collins
- 3 Aug 2010: Denver Open Source User Group — Architecture Haiku
- 7 Sept 2010: Boulder Java User Group — Architecture Haiku
- 17-21 Oct 2010: SPLASH / OOPSLA — tutorial on Architecturally Evident Coding Style
Recent blog posts
- Architecture Hoisting - video of Atlanta talk
- Speaking at Atlanta IASA, Weds 14th, 2012
- Book on sale: Now just $19.50 with free shipping (limited time)
- More book citations: Muddy architecture
- New review of my book
- Talk on expressing architecture in code: AgileRoots 2010
- CompArch/WICSA 2011 - Panel discussion and Haiku tutorial
- Much good news: Second printing, Amazon top-10
- Another great Amazon review of my book
- Interview in InfoQ -- and in Japan




Thanks for speaking last
Thanks for speaking last night. The ‘Dad vs. the mailbox’ analogy will come in handy for me. – Thomas Albright