Agile Software Architecture

Foreword by John Grundy: Architecture vs Agile: competition or cooperation?

Until recently, conventional wisdom has held that software architecture design and agile development methods are somehow “incompatible,” or at least they generally work at cross-purposes [1]. Software architecture design has usually been seen by many in the agile community as a prime example of the major agile anti-pattern of “big design up front.” On the other hand, agile methods have been seen by many of those focusing on the discipline of software architecture as lacking sufficient forethought, rigor, and far too dependent on “emergent” architectures (a suitable one of which may never actually emerge). In my view, there is both a degree of truth and a substantial ...