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

To respond rapidly to changes in the business, IT organizations are expediting enterprise Agile framework adoptions at scale. Traditional architecture development methods don't add value in the fast-moving iterative Agile software development, and cannot survive any longer. Therefore, Agile architecture practices are important. Instead of big upfront designs, iterative and just-enough architecture using intentional architecture and emergent design is the way forward.

Agile architecture development is a collaborative effort. It must support the continuous flow of values with a Lean-Agile mindset to actively eradicate any non-value-added features and activities. The team must adapt and practice continuous refactoring with repeated and fast learning cycles. Architecture should enable agility in product delivery by vigorously seeking opportunities to adopt proven patterns and techniques such as DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, and so on. Agile architecture practice...