Agile Software Architecture

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Agile Software Architecture is written by Uwe Friedrichsen and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 012807034X (ISBN 10) and 9780128070345 (ISBN 13).

Many discussions in the agile community circle around emergent architecture. The idea is that explicit architectural work is not needed anymore besides an initial architectural vision. Instead, the architecture would emerge from a cycle of implementation and refactoring guided by a few design principles, and this approach would automatically lead to the smallest architecture possible. This chapter shows that this proposition is only partially correct. Starting with the activities and objectives of architectural work, it shows that emergent architecture is providing a valuable alternative to conventional architecture approaches in some areas of architectural work, whereas it does not support other areas at all. On the basis of these findings, a joint approach for architectural work in an agile setting is presented.