Agile Architecture Domain-Driven Design
Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!
When companies transform towards an agile and DevOps way of working, they sometimes ask how to proceed with architects. Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture. A core problem we see is that those responsible for the transformation have little experience dealing with architecture in an agile way. The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level. The scrum masters are concerned with the agile process on a team level. And in some transformations, the team also has an agile technical coach who teaches the team new practices and techniques from Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and SRE. In contrast, we observe that architects tend only to get training, if any, and no coaching. This article will lay out why it is crucial to rethink how organizations deal with architects and to start explicitly coaching architects when going towards agile architecture. How the role of architects is changing in agile and DevOps The considerable debate in the industry is whether we still require architects when we can make the high-performing software teams responsible for the architecture. That is an ideal situation Read more…