In the last post (What is Intentional Architecture?) we provided the motivation and a description of the role of Intentional Architecture in agile, enterprise-class application development. I suspect that most enterprise agilists would agree that there are substantive benefits when Intentional Architecture is effectively applied (so long as we don’t slow down development or use the need for up-front architecture as a capitulation to the waterfall design phases of the past!). Historically, Int
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Job posting is below. Here are some of our references for this position: http://www.agilearchitect.org/agile/index.asp http://www.agiledata.org/essays/enterpriseArchitecture.html Agile Application Architect Are you experienced with enterprise applications, tiered architecture, agile development, and Ruby on Rails? Do you communicate well, work well in a team, and get satisfaction[...]
Agile Architecture: What is Intentional Architecture?
We started this series of posts with a discussion of the fact that continuous refactoring of emerging-only architectures in enterprise-class software systems becomes problematic as the size of the system grows. In addition, to improving usability, extensibility, performance and maintenance, it seems evident that we might wish to[...]
Conversation about an Agile Architect
This is a short and sharp conversation over ICQ between two Xebians about what an Agile Architect is or does. The conclusion is that an Agile Architect has, in addition to Agile manifesto, a number of principles: - Just-in-time and just-enough architecture - An architect is a[...]
Enterprise Agile - Interview with Michael Cote of Redmonk
Here’s me in August talking about some of the pains of Big Agile. When Cote put it on his blog, the only comment was some guy dogging my monitor. That situation has since been remedied. Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/3835/enterprise-agile-with-chip-holden [...]
“Architect”…proving my value in Agile and GIS
In my RSS aggregator, I’ve been seeing a lot of talk on the role of an architect in the IT industry. Periodically there is a flurry of commentary out on the web generally revolving around the question “What is an architect?” Alan, a technology evangelist over on the[...]
