Posted by Niklas Odding around lunchtime: January 26th, 2011
This blog is the second of a series of blogs in which I will examine the role of architects in Scrum. Last week I started with the forgotten questions of Scrum. In this blog I will look in more detail to the Agile Manifesto and the agile values.
Architects and the agile values
Most of the literature concerning the role of architects in an agile context focuses on the Agile flow itself and how architects can avoid disturbing that flow. Mike Cohn, in his book “succeeding with agile” makes the distinction between coding & non-coding architects. In where he states that the coding architects will have less trouble finding their new role in de Agile development process.
An architect within a team has to be able to code himself. He is a team member, who has more experience in structuring the application being build compared to other team members. By using that experience he can add value to the team. Scrum has no particular role for non-coding architects. The question rises if this is totally true. (more…)
