Architecture and Agility
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Questions?
Please!
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Expectations?
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Session (Forum) Outline
Architecture: What is it?
Agility and Architecture
Incrementally Validating Designs
Agility, Usability and Architecture
Architects and Agility
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Architecture
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What the bleep is Architecture?
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Metaphors We Live By
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Metaphors We Live By
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Troubles in Architecture Land
(over cost - late - dissatisfied customers)
(designers and
builders disconnected)
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“Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes”
(work end to end with clients)
(more personal
satisfaction
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Your Architectural Stories?
What works?
What doesn’t?
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An Extreme Response
Delivery over architecture
No use before reuse
No documentation?
TDD / Refactoring
Architectural spikes
Collective ownership
and
more
…
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Architecture
And
Agility
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Agile projects lack architectural vision
?
Agile projects are designed
one iteration at a time
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Agile Realities ( real quotes)
“Scrum is just a way for mgmt to ask us to
get more done”
“Agile is a term given to XP so that it would
be acceptable to the masses”
“Agile is now such a buzz word, it has lost
its meaning so I simply don’t use it”
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Cross cutting forums feed vision
Business driven designs are
incrementally validated
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Architectural Forums
Project (6 – 12 months)
Chartering
Project
Retrospective
Roadmap
Personas
Product Backlog
Releases (1 – 3 Months)
Planning
Retrospective
Iterations (1 - 4 weeks)
Plan
Build
Reflect
Daily Standup
(SCRUM)
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Chartering a Common Vision
Chartering starts building domain language
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Release Planning
and
Cross Cutting
Concerns
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Incrementally
Validating
Designs
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Design Happens Continuously
Stand (up)
and Deliver
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Design Honesty is Challenged
Tests Do Not Know How to Lie
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Evolutionary Design (IXP Style)
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What About Documentation?
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Pragmatic Documentation Exists
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Living Documentation Lives
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Fixed Cycles (simple, powerful)
Surfacing Architectural Abstractions
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Agility
Usability
Architecture
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User Centered Design
Architecture that includes people
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A New Way of Working
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Architects and Agility
( architects as guides )
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Old School Architect
Pictures Over People
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One a Personal Note
Producers Guide Improvisation
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A New Metaphor
What about …
… architects as guides?
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Developer Guides
Architectural Spike Service
1) Take a snapshot of code
2) Spike on solution
3) Present solution to developers
4) Work with developers to use solution
5) Iterate and improve solution
6) New tool is created for developers
Developers are the customers!
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Developer Manifesto
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Community Guide
Connecting product owners to developers
Connecting developers and testers
Guide for young programmers
Leading by Example
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System Guide
Promoting systems thinking
Using cross iteration planning as a tool
Connect with other communities as needed
Systems have personalities
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The Agile Architect is …
a design, builder
a guide, not a dictator
a product language builder
interested in connecting people
Could apply to the architecture?
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Architecture
and
Agility
( what - where – when – who )
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Questions?
Development Agility – Coaching Agility
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