lean4it: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

This blog is inspired in part by Jason Bloomberg’s recent critiques of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and discussion of Agile EA at Netflix.

Agile EA has been a topic for some time, with Scott Ambler being a notable pioneer. Various authors advocate that practices like iteration, Scrum, incremental delivery, and DevOps be combined with enterprise architecture, but I think more can be said about EA objectives in terms of:

  • cover-dnsReinertsen’s and Ries’ views on product development
  • human visual processing and
  • the concept of the OODA (Observe/Orient/Decide/Act) loop

Read the entire article at http://www.lean4it.com/2014/09/thoughts-on-agile-and-enterprise-architecture.html.

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