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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

The need for change in lean-Agile EA

Enterprise architects significantly contribute to architecting the future state of a business by leveraging the power of innovative modern technologies. IT needs a broader end-to-end vision, strategic alignment, and improved business engagement to enable business agility. Besides, IT needs to adopt lean-Agile software delivery processes and practices to respond rapidly and flexibly to customer demands to continuously keep the business competitive. Agile enterprise architects perform an invaluable role in organizations embracing agility by balancing business and IT strategies by acting as a conduit for creating high cohesion between business and software development teams. The alignment between the business and IT is similar to the connecting bridge in the middle of the Petronas Towers.

The following diagram is an illustration of the bridge as well as the balancing act of Agile enterprise architects:

Figure 4.2 – The...