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

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Summary

Technical excellence brings rigor in quality development, which substantially improves organizational agility. Technical agility and software craftsmanship are underpinning forces enabling technical excellence. While technical agility implies good practices for architecture, development, testing, and deployments with built-in quality and automation, software craftsmanship is about an individual's ability to exhibit mastery in technology.

Learning organizations elevate technical agility by indefatigably adopting good design and coding practices and strenuously implementing DevOps and automation techniques. Technical agility fosters architecture evolution when architecture principles, design coding, testing, and operations are thoughtfully applied. Architecting for change is primarily attained by vertically slicing solutions, adopting DDD for decomposition, and implementing microservices-style architecture. Anti-corruption and strangler patterns are inevitably important...