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Architecting for Large-Scale Agile Development: A Risk-Driven Approach

May 2013 Article
Ipek Ozkaya, Michael J. Gagliardi, Robert Nord

This article focuses on two agile architecting methods that provide rapid feedback on the state of agile team support: architecture-centric risk factors for adoption of agile development at scale and incremental architecture evaluations.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

In this paper, we present lessons we learned while working with a
large program, helping it to modernize its very large transaction-based system that
operates 24x7, while adopting agile software development. We focus on two agile
architecting methods we used that provide rapid feedback on the state of agile
team support: architecture-centric risk factors for adoption of agile development at
scale and incremental architecture evaluations. This article was first published in Crosstalk.