Architecture for Agile Projects - Extended

Chapter 1. Agile in the Enterprise

Overview

• Agile in the Enterprise
• The Beginning – Late 1960s, Early 1970s
• The Beginning – Mid 1980s
• EA Frameworks
• Today
• State of Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Arrival of Agile

• The Stage is set – The 1990s
• The Agile Manifesto
• Software Methodologies Timeline
• Agile Characteristics
• Evolution of Agile Architecture
• Agile Needs Architecture
• Agile Projects
• Architectural Concerns
• Does Architecture Restrict Agile?
• Architecture Needs to be Agile
• Continuously Evolving Sustainable

Activity

• Get Ready For Agile
• Get Ready For Agile – Results

Chapter 2. Scope of Agile Architecture

Overview

• Scope of Agile Architecture
• Look Up!
• Where to Start?
• Urgent: System and Support Structures

The Agile Fit

• Agile Needs a Plan
• Start at the Top
• Indicators for Agile
• When Agile Does Not Work
• False Starts
• Connecting the Dots

EA Has a Vision

• Involvement of the EA Program
• Agile Solution Architecture
• Agile Solution Architecture Vision
• Need for Agile Solution Architecture
• Architecture Domains and Agile
• Spanning Domains for Agile
• Application Architecture Vision
• Application Architecture Agile Vision

At the Project Level

• “Traditional” Agile Team Members
• Example: Scrum Team Roles
• “Empowered” Agile Teams
• Example: Disciplined Agile Delivery
• Collaboration of Architect and Team Lead
• Agile Architects as Team Players
• Architecture Challenges for Agile Teams
• Agile Solution Resource Coordination

Activity

• Setup the Agile Project
• Setup the Agile Project – Results

Chapter 3. Who is the Agile Architect?

Overview

• It’s All About Attitude
• Thinking in Agile
• Behaving in Agile
• Communicating in Agile
• More on Communication

Implications of Agile on the Architect

• The Balancing Act of the Agile Architect
• Knights of the Round Table
• Team Work
• Involvement is Ongoing
• Shared Experience
• Going on Missions

What is Needed?

• Requirements Management
• The Big Picture
• Know the EA Vision
• Agile Requires Solution Architecture
• Work with the SA Vision
• Agile Work Updates the Enterprise
• Determine the Agile Vision
• Practice Good Architecture

Activity

• Agile Architecture Deliverables
• Agile Architecture Deliverables – Results

Chapter 4. How to do Architecture in an Agile Way

• The Agile Manifesto and Architecture
• What is the Agile Manifesto?
• Individuals and interactions
• Working software
• Customer collaboration
• Responding to change
• Enable People to Create Success

Agile Principles and Architecture

• What are the Agile Principles?
• Agile Principles Need Policies
• Standards Support Policies
• Agile Principles, Policies and Standards
• Principles, Policies, Standards: Connect
• Architecture Examination of the Agile Principles
• Principle #1
• Principle #2
• Principle #3
• Principle #4
• Principle #5
• Principle #6
• Principle #7
• Principle #8
• Principle #9
• Principle #10
• Principle #11
• Principle #12
• Agile Principles Make the Way Clear
• Architecture in an Agile Way

Activity

• Working with Agile Principles
• Working with Agile Principles – Results

Chapter 5. Agile Architecture Requirements Management

Overview

• What is Requirements Management?
• Definition of Requirements Managements
• Architecture Requirements Management

What is Different with Agile?

• Agile Architecture Supports Emergent Design
• Incremental or Emergent Architecture?
• Intentional Architecture!
• At the Agile Project Level

Requirement Management and Agile

• Techniques for Agile Requirements
• Agile Architecture Requirements Process
• Architecture Comes First
• Pre-project Requirements Discovery
• Project Requirements Discovery
• New Discoveries
• Follow Through on Requirements
• Leverage the Backlog
• Backlog: Prioritized Style
• Backlog: Pool Style
• Agile Backlogs
• Agile Requirements Management Tools

Activities

• Agile Architecture Use Cases
• Agile Architecture Use Cases – Results
• Agile Project Use Cases
• Agile Project Use Cases – Results

Chapter 6. Agile Architecture Stakeholder Management

Overview

• What is Stakeholder Management?
• Stakeholder Management Defined
• Stakeholder Management for Architecture
• Implications of Agile Stakeholder Management

Agile Cultures

• What is needed to make Agile work
• When Agile does not work

Agile Teams

• Agile’s Needs vs Enterprise Realities
• Agile Team Composition
• Agile Teams for the Enterprise
• Architecture Driven
• Feature Driven
• Reuse Driven
• Hybrid
• Agile Stakeholder Management Techniques
• Agile Stakeholder Challenges
• Working Together
• Schedules
• Budgets

Activity

• Team Composition
• Team Composition – Results

Chapter 7. Agile Architecture Governance Frameworks

Overview

• Traditional vs Agile Governance
• Governance
• Policing vs Empowering
• Procedural vs Responsive
• Reactive vs Proactive

Agile Governance Frameworks

• Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe
• Based on Agile Architecture Principles
• The SAFe House of Lean
• Disciplined Agile Delivery - DAD
• DAD’s Hybrid Framework
• DAD: Foundation for Scaling Agile
• AgilePath
• AgilePath’s Event-Driven Governance

Agile Governance Characteristics

• What’s common?
• People-Focused
• Goal-Oriented
• Lean-in Nature
• Agile Governance Components

Governance Components

• Principles and Policies
• Governance Mechanisms
• How to Engage
• Measuring and Monitoring
• Tracking and Reporting
• Architecture Inventory

Activity

• Responsive Agile Governance
• Responsive Agile Governance – Results