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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

Explaining the Agile architect's behavior and duties with metaphors

In many organizations, such as Spotify, culture is one of the biggest differentiators. The key change in culture is the shift from ownership to selfless collaboration and sharing. The collaborative mindset is deeply connected to the new ways of working of architects in Agile software development. Culture, behavior, and workstyles determine the success of an individual as well as the outcomes delivered.

The changing behavior of the Agile architect

Agile architects continuously collaborate with all stakeholders, with long-term success in mind, to support forward engineering plans, decision making, and alignment to an architecture vision. A collaborative culture and mindset foster better communication, knowledge sharing, trust, and respect among team members and architects.

Almost all Agile software development methodologies strongly advocate self-organized teams with creative ways of collaborating over...