Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility

Chapter 13. Software Architecture and Design’s Role in Lean-Agile Software Development

“If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.”  —Gerald Weinberg

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”  —Niels Bohr

In This Chapter

At the beginning of the Agile movement, software architecture and design was often considered irrelevant. Most Agile advocates have since recanted this notion; however, the damage still lingers. In Agile development, proper software architecture and design is still not well understood. This chapter discusses the changing role of software architecture and design, from a framework that holds pieces together to a framework ...