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Becoming an Agile Software Architect

You're reading from   Becoming an Agile Software Architect Strategies, practices, and patterns to help architects design continually evolving solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563841
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rajesh R V Rajesh R V
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding Architecture in the Agile World
2. Chapter 1: Looking through the Agile Architect's Lens FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 2: Agile Architecture – The Foundation of Agile Delivery 4. Section 2: Transformation of Architect Roles in Agile
5. Chapter 3: Agile Architect – The Linchpin of Success 6. Chapter 4: Agile Enterprise Architect – Connecting Strategy to Code 7. Chapter 5: Agile Solution Architect – Designing Continuously Evolving Systems 8. Section 3: Essential Knowledge to Become a Successful Agile Architect
9. Chapter 6: Delivering Value with New Ways of Working 10. Chapter 7: Technical Agility with Patterns and Techniques 11. Chapter 8: DevOps and Continuous Delivery to Accelerate Flow 12. Chapter 9: Architecting for Quality with Quality Attributes 13. Chapter 10: Lean Documentation through Collaboration 14. Chapter 11: Architect as an Enabler in Lean-Agile Governance 15. Section 4: Personality Traits and Organizational Influence
16. Chapter 12: Architecting Organizational Agility 17. Chapter 13: Culture and Leadership Traits 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Keeping options open

Architecture work starts far ahead of the LRM, as shown in Figure 6.8. During this period, architects can use multiple approaches to explore solutions for decision making.

This section will examine a few techniques to refine the decision backlog to arrive at a final solution by analyzing options. In some cases, we have to eliminate options early, but in other instances, techniques that keep as many options open as possible are more appropriate.

Using a hypothesis-based solution

A Hypothesis-Based Solution (HBS) is a structured mechanism for exploring, analyzing, and finalizing solutions based on point-based design. The HBS approach is particularly useful in cases where the architect is confident about a particular solution, based on experience and expertise, even before all the requirements are known.

In such cases, architects start with one potential solution and keep exploring that solution further with an open mind until they discover negative cases...

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