Distilling Best Practices for Agile Development from Architecture Methodology

Supporting Large-Scale Agile Development with Domain-Driven Design

“…This phenomenon is also reinforced by the increasing number of "agility and architecture can coexist" advocates cf. [3,4], or [15]. For building complex and large-scale systems, some amount of architectural planning and governance becomes even more important [16].…”

“…The success of agile methods for small, co-located teams has inspired enterprises to increasingly apply agile practices to large-scale endeavors [2]. One major critique of agile development and in particular of large-scale agile development is the lack of assistance for building and managing architecture in such development endeavors [2,3]. On the one hand, agile teams naïvely hope that a suitable architecture will gradually emerge out of weekly refactorings [4].…”

Product Lines, Energy Conservation, Use Cases, Agile Development, and Infotainment

“…"Distilling Best Practices for Agile Development from Architecture Methodology: Experiences from Industrial Application," by Dominik Rost and his colleagues, reports the lessons learned from industrial experience to identify software architecture best practices for use in agile methods. 4 Scrum and Extreme Programming agile practices don't provide engineering-style support for architecture. The authors' experiences show that integrating software architecture practices and agile development improves product quality significantly and predictably.…”

Using Social Network Analysis to Investigate the Collaboration Between Architects and Agile Teams: A Case Study of a Large-Scale Agile Development Program in a German Consumer Electronics Company

“…Since the initial application of agile methods was originally intended for small, co-located teams, many organizations are uncertain how to introduce them at scale and therefore face new challenges such as inter-team coordination, dependencies to other existing environments or distribution of work without a defined architecture [1,4,5]. The latter is also the reason why large-scale agile development has been subject to criticism since it neglects detailed assistance on software architecting [2,6]. Agile methods assume that architecture should evolve incrementally rather than being imposed by some direct structuring force (emergent architecture) [7].…”