You shouldn’t be surprised by this. Agile is in need of Architecture but you have to seriously question how we are going about adapting and inspecting the role of the Agile Architect in meeting that need. Funny thing is that it may be due to the fact that mainstream Agile thinking is wrapped around Agile as a small team of hardy souls bringing joy to the masses and angst to ‘the man’.
When you live where we do, working with huge organizations spending enormous sums of money so that hundreds and even thousands of people can build, support, train, maintain, and even (gasp) plan how to handle the information needs of millions of people as they; trade at a local, regional, national, and international level concurrently; seek, provide, research, pay for healthcare; protect/defend their person, family, home, community, nation, world from threats of others or their own environmental actions; and even download upload whatever they find entertaining in this world; when you live on this side of hill, architecture is at the core of being Agile. And for the most part, we suck at making it great. Why is that? [Read more...]
