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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

As we learned in the previous chapter, the second segment of technical agility is DevOps and automation – a combination of embracing DevOps culture and implementing CD. DevOps is a culture that brings development and operational teams together without the wall of confusion. DevSecOps is an evolution of DevOps that instills security thinking into every step of Agile software delivery.

In this chapter, we saw that CD is a delivery practice to automatically move new features, improvements, and fixes to production by reducing the lead time and improving predictability. Consistently practicing CD dramatically improves the throughput of delivery and stability of systems and services. CD practice consists of CI, automated deployment, and release on demand. CI is a natural extension of development that helps to build, test, and deploy applications to one or more environments.

Next, we understood that automated test packs consolidate unit, functional, non-functional, and...