Agile Architecture Principle #7 – There is no monopoly on innovation

Note: this is one in a series of posts under the category of “agile architecture”. In an earlier post, (Six Principles of Agile Architecture) we identified six (ok, now seven) principles that we can apply to help us reason about the challenge of architecting systems of scale in an agile enterprise.

“Inertia is the residue of [...]

New enterprise agile blog at agilejuice.wordpress.com

As if it wasn’t obvious from its name, my blog is dedicated to the challenges of agility at scale, and I try to stay focused on that space because that is where so many of the challenges and so many of the potential benefits of agile adoption lie. Of course, it’s often a mix of [...]

Agile Architecture: Role of the System Architect in the Agile Enterprise

In the last post (What is Intentional Architecture?) we provided the motivation and a description of the role of Intentional Architecture in agile, enterprise-class application development. I suspect that most enterprise agilists would agree that there are substantive benefits when Intentional Architecture is effectively applied (so long as we don’t slow down development or [...]

Agile Architecture: What is Intentional Architecture?

We started this series of posts with a discussion of the fact that continuous refactoring of emerging-only architectures in enterprise-class software systems becomes problematic as the size of the system grows. In addition, to improving usability, extensibility, performance and maintenance, it seems evident that we might wish to build systems out of components that work [...]

Agile Architecture Principle #6 – System architecture is a role collaboration

Note: this is one in a series of posts under the category of “agile architecture”. In an earlier post, (Six Principles of Agile Architecture) we identified six principles that we can apply to help us reason about the challenge of architecting systems of scale in an agile enterprise.

In prior posts, we’ve discussed the first [...]