New Whitepaper: A Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model for Agile Enterprises

For any who have been following the requirements blog series and category, my collaborator, Juha-Markus Aalto and I have just completed a whitepaper which integrates the lean and scalable requirements information model with the Big Picture Series in a narrative format. It’s not quite as deep as the blog series and some content (like Use [...]

Enterprise Agility-The Big Picture (12): Architectural Runway

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In prior posts, we’ve discussed Agile Development Teams, Agile System Teams, Iterations , Agile Product Owner, Backlog, User Stories and the Iteration Backlog , Release , Vision and Release [...]

Upcoming September 10, 2008 Webinar – Principles of Agile Architecture

For those interested in the Agile Architecture Series, I’ll be presenting a webinar on this topic on September 10, 2008 at 1:00PM Eastern time. The webinar Principles of Agile Architecture: Intentional Architecture in Enterprise Class Systems is described below:

“As Agile development practices cross the chasm to the enterprise, many interesting debates continue about the role [...]

Principles of Agile Architecture – A Whitepaper

The whitepaper, Principles of Agile Architecture: Intentional Architecture in Enterprise-Class Systems, has now been posted on the Resource page. This whitepaper grew out of a series of blog posts wherein we were trying to define some governing agile principles that teams could use  to guide their agile, system-level architectural practices. My coauthors are Ryan Martens, [...]

Agile Architecture – The Whitepaper Now On Line

For those of you following the agile architecture series, you may know that I’ve been working with Ryan Martens, Rally’s CTO and founder, and Mauricio Zamora, from CSG Systems, to put our thoughts on agile, intentional architecture into whitepaper form. Rally has given a big assist to the production and publishing process and I’m happy [...]

Recap: SEVEN Principles of Agile Architecture

Those following the agile architecture series will probably note that the principles and labels have morphed over time. I’ve been collaborating with Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder and CTO, and Mauricio Zamora, Executive Director at CSG Systems, in writing a whitepaper to be published on this topic. In the process, we’ve also had some comments from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]