By Nigel Green
I’ve been reading/re-reading some great related articles that discuss agile architecture and the need recognize the business as a complex adaptive system. Here are the links with some favourite quotes:
Is Agile killing EA #1? by Charles Betz “the EA team needs to match the cadence of the Agile teams. This is a central challenge”.
Is Agile killing EA #2? by Jason Bloomberg.
” …if some company’s EA means nothing more than a lot of paperwork that gets in the way of basic goals like working software that keeps customers happy, then we can only hope Agile drives a nail into that coffin. On the other hand, sometimes paperwork is a good thing. Only an overly dogmatic reading of the Agile Manifesto would lead one to conclude that we don’t need no stinkin’ documentation”.
Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken? by Jason Bloomberg.
“Frameworks are cocaine for executives – they give them a huge rush and then they move to the next framework”.
Enterprise Architecture Finally Crosses the Chasm by Jason Bloomberg including an interview with Adrian Cockcroft formally the Cloud Architect at Netflix.
Read the entire article at http://taotwits-too-big-to-tweet.blogspot.hk/2015/09/going-digital-agile-architecture.html.
