You're reading from Becoming an Agile Software Architect Strategies, practices, and patterns to help architects design continually evolving solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563841

Length 372 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Agile

Author (1):

Rajesh R V

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Understanding Architecture in the Agile World

2. Chapter 1: Looking through the Agile Architect's Lens FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Agile Architecture – The Foundation of Agile Delivery

4. Section 2: Transformation of Architect Roles in Agile

5. Chapter 3: Agile Architect – The Linchpin of Success

6. Chapter 4: Agile Enterprise Architect – Connecting Strategy to Code

7. Chapter 5: Agile Solution Architect – Designing Continuously Evolving Systems

8. Section 3: Essential Knowledge to Become a Successful Agile Architect

9. Chapter 6: Delivering Value with New Ways of Working

10. Chapter 7: Technical Agility with Patterns and Techniques

11. Chapter 8: DevOps and Continuous Delivery to Accelerate Flow

12. Chapter 9: Architecting for Quality with Quality Attributes

13. Chapter 10: Lean Documentation through Collaboration

14. Chapter 11: Architect as an Enabler in Lean-Agile Governance

15. Section 4: Personality Traits and Organizational Influence

16. Chapter 12: Architecting Organizational Agility

17. Chapter 13: Culture and Leadership Traits

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 11: Architect as an Enabler in Lean-Agile Governance

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

– Scott Adams, the artist and creator of the Dilbert comic

In the previous chapter, we discovered alternative approaches to minimize documentation efforts and covered the adoption of Lean methods for essential documentation. Lean documentation helps to accelerate the sustainable, continuous delivery of values. Governance is perceived as another flow impediment in Agile software development. In this chapter, we will investigate and learn how to adopt architecture alignment without affecting the speed of delivery.

Architecture governance is traditionally a lengthy, low-frequency, board-based discussion based on extensive documentation. Agile software development promotes interactions and engagements over documented evidence-based reviews. With the help of a revolutionary rethink, establishing a fit-for-purpose, Lean-Agile governance...