Experiences from an Industrial Software Architecture course

Software architecture is seen as one of the key elements for achieving a high degree of reuse in product lines. To get more focus on architectures, many organizations want to improve their ability to find and maintain a successful architecture. To achieve this they have to involve their most senior designers. In this paper we discuss experiences from an industrial course on software architectures for experienced software designers. We present the motivation for the course, the material selected and the experiences. The course was built up with several exercises where the participants could utilize the covered material on their own system experience.