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Becoming an Agile Software Architect

By : Rajesh R V
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Becoming an Agile Software Architect

By: Rajesh R V

Overview of this book

Many organizations have embraced Agile methodologies to transform their ability to rapidly respond to constantly changing customer demands. However, in this melee, many enterprises often neglect to invest in architects by presuming architecture is not an intrinsic element of Agile software development. Since the role of an architect is not pre-defined in Agile, many organizations struggle to position architects, often resulting in friction with other roles or a failure to provide a clear learning path for architects to be productive. This book guides architects and organizations through new Agile ways of incrementally developing the architecture for delivering an uninterrupted, continuous flow of values that meets customer needs. You'll explore various aspects of Agile architecture and how it differs from traditional architecture. The book later covers Agile architects' responsibilities and how architects can add significant value by positioning themselves appropriately in the Agile flow of work. Through examples, you'll also learn concepts such as architectural decision backlog,the last responsible moment, value delivery, architecting for change, DevOps, and evolutionary collaboration. By the end of this Agile book, you'll be able to operate as an architect in Agile development initiatives and successfully architect reliable software systems.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: Understanding Architecture in the Agile World
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Chapter 1: Looking through the Agile Architect's Lens
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Section 2: Transformation of Architect Roles in Agile
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Section 3: Essential Knowledge to Become a Successful Agile Architect
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Section 4: Personality Traits and Organizational Influence

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...