Posted by Niklas Odding in the early morning: May 3rd, 2011
This Blog is a kick off to for many writings about architecture in an Agile World. We will explore the topic from all the views possible, in order to gain a better understanding about it. By doing so, we hope to create a community of followers, who would also like to contribute or discuss about this topic.
Xebia is helping many organizations in the Netherlands, France, the United States and India with implementing an agile way of system development. In most of the cases the Scrum method is applied and very good results are achieved. Business and IT are working much closer together, resulting in more quality and much more customer satisfaction. However, lately we also see a trend in problems that seem to occur in (almost) every organization. Software is developed in a fast way with high quality, but it takes forever to get it in production. The more teams are being formed, the more interdependencies between the teams occur (more…)
Posted by Sander van den Berg in the early evening: August 11th, 2010
Over the last 4 month’s we have written a series of blogposts describing 11 principles of Lean Architecture. This post will be the last of the series, the wrap up post.
Posted by Denis Koelewijn in the early evening: August 10th, 2010
This is the eleventh and last post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive. The eleventh principle we discuss is called “Freedom where possible, standardize where needed“. (more…)
Posted by Gero Vermaas in the early afternoon: July 28th, 2010
This is the tenth post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive. The tenth principle we discuss is called “Architecture emerging from Projects“. (more…)
Posted by Denis Koelewijn in the early morning: July 15th, 2010
This is the eight post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive. The eight principle we discuss is called “Focus on the value stream“. (more…)
Posted by Gero Vermaas in the early evening: June 21st, 2010
This is the seventh post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive. The seventh principle we discuss is called “Architecture Initiated by Business Goals“. (more…)
Posted by Sander van den Berg around lunchtime: June 11th, 2010
This is the sixth post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive. The sixth principle we discuss applies to the process of architecting and is called “Iterative Architecture Development”.
Posted by Denis Koelewijn at around evening time: June 2nd, 2010
This is the fifth post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive. The fifth principle is called “Just in time, just enough“. The essence of this principle is that only architectural work is done that is necessary and possible at that very moment.
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Posted by Gero Vermaas in the early morning: May 27th, 2010
This is the forth post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive. The forth principle is call “All hands on deck early on” (initially coined by James O. Coplien). The essence of this principle is that all stakeholders of a project are involved at the start of the project.
Posted by Sander van den Berg in the early evening: May 20th, 2010
This is the third post in a series of blog posts discussing Lean Architecture principles. Each post discusses one principle. Applying these principles results in an architecture (process) that is better connected to the business, better able to deal with change and more cohesive.
The second principle we discuss applies to an important faces of architecting and is called “Think Big, Act Small“. (more…)