Saturday 9 October 2010

Software architect role in agile projects

Discussing the role of software architect we need to consider the following:

In the agile development we are moving away from the waterfall method. This means that we have no way to build the full architecture of the system in the beginning phase since we have no basis for this, no specification to follow, no full description of features that will be implemented and no time to be spent on this task.

In the result we are urning around the process of building the architecture - from the concept in the beginning to the periodic refactoring after x iterations and the constant control of what is happening in the system, monitoring of problems developers are dealing with due undecided or new gaps in the architecture.

All this (but in the more structure way) is described in this article, and presented  here.

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