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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Interpersonal traits of Agile architects

Interpersonal qualities are the mindset and behaviors required for Agile architects to interact and engage continuously with others to succeed. This section will explore 10 interpersonal skills essential for architects to work successfully in Agile teams.

Collaborating for collective ownership

In Agile software development, autonomy, empowerment, and decentralized decision-making demand architects to actively pursue evolutionary collaboration. We discussed collaboration for collective ownership in Chapter 3, Agile Architects – Linchpin to Success, and Chapter 10, Lean Documentation through Collaboration. Collaboration brings out collective intelligence, collective ownership, and collective knowledge, and also reduces excessive documentation.

Collaboration is a means of collecting diverse perspectives, and then synthesizing and agreeing on an inclusive solution. Evolutionary collaboration requires extensive and open communication...