Making the work transparent
Transparency and openness are fundamental principles of agile software development frameworks as they help to demonstrate the value of the work done by individuals and teams at all levels. Work transparency is crucial for architects to show their work consistently to all stakeholders.
The following points explore several ways to make architecture work more transparent:
- Kanban boards, burn-ups, and burn-down charts are consistently used by agile teams to show their work. Seamlessly integrating architecture work into these boards is an excellent mechanism to demonstrate architecture activities.
- An architecture roadmap showing the time sequence of decisions and enablers is a handy tool for evidencing what activities are in hand for architects. Roadmaps can exist at the initiative level as well as at the team level.
- Application health dashboards capturing the current state and next desired state are excellent ways to show how continuous improvements...
