Milan Milanović
Milan is a Consultant, Engineering Manager, Software Architect, and Developer, mainly on Cloud (Azure) and Microsoft .NET tech stack. His main areas of interest include software architecture, cloud computing solutions, web and mobile solutions, agile methodology, and managing software teams to deliver innovative and high-quality products.
Talks
Expect the Unexpected: How Software Laws Shape People, Teams, and Systems
Every senior engineer has had the moment. The outage at 2am that came out of nowhere. The team that quietly fell apart. The architecture that got worse the more you fixed it. None of it came out of nowhere. It came out of laws nobody named in time. This talk gives you nine of them, across three levels, in 35 minutes. Cognitive biases that mislead the individual. Coordination laws that break the team. Architectural patterns that bend systems under their own weight. Dunning-Kruger, Conway, Hyrum, Gall, and the rest. Named decades ago. Still operating in 2026. The interesting part is what AI does to all of this. The laws do not break under AI. They amplify. Your org chart ships faster. Your bad assumptions compile cleaner. Your sunk costs grow on autocomplete. You leave with a three-question diagnostic to run before any architecture decision, post-mortem, or design review. Same shape as the book underneath. More depth in the chapters.
Efficiently Communicating Software Architectures
This talk will explore the importance of effectively communicating software architectures and techniques for doing so. Software architecture is critical for building and maintaining complex systems, but it can be challenging to convey these designs to stakeholders. By understanding how to communicate architecture effectively, developers can ensure that their designs are understood by all parties involved. We will discuss the use of visual aids, such as diagrams and models, as well as the importance of clear and concise language. Attendees will leave with practical tips for improving communication around software architecture.