Can agile work for architecture projects?
“In general, there are very few Agile projects that do not see the value in architecture,” said Forrester’s West. “So, increasingly, we are seeing architecture work get delivered in an Agile way.” According to the Forrester report “Balance Architecture And Agility To Sustain Value Delivery,” released in July, enterprise architects and Agile teams don’t always see eye to eye on control and governance issues around architecture changes. Therefore, West advises that organizations balance the short-term delivery focus of Agile with the long-term architecture priorities. To make this happen, he suggests the following: • Introduce a Lean enterprise architecture discipline to deliver work products that are most appropriate for the project’s audience. • Improve collaboration by including an architect on the Agile development teams. • Use the right type of architecture to solve priority problems. Make business value a driver for all architectural decisions. • Integrate business and architectura
