Explaining the Agile architect's behavior and duties with metaphors

In many organizations, such as Spotify, culture is one of the biggest differentiators. The key change in culture is the shift from ownership to selfless collaboration and sharing. The collaborative mindset is deeply connected to the new ways of working of architects in Agile software development. Culture, behavior, and workstyles determine the success of an individual as well as the outcomes delivered.

The changing behavior of the Agile architect

Agile architects continuously collaborate with all stakeholders, with long-term success in mind, to support forward engineering plans, decision making, and alignment to an architecture vision. A collaborative culture and mindset foster better communication, knowledge sharing, trust, and respect among team members and architects.

Almost all Agile software development methodologies strongly advocate self-organized teams with creative ways of collaborating over...