Agile and Architecture: a meeting of the undead

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Declares architecture murdered by Agile in 2001 and shows how Scrum creates a protective terrarium that isolates teams while management gets monthly direction; argues dependencies act as subscriptions to streams of change that increase accidental work; prescribes concrete fixes: move budgets into self‑sustaining cross‑functional teams, push architecture decisions into the team as team-owned architecture, favor observability-verified quality, minimize external SDKs (use plain HTTP), do paired/mob onboarding and plan explicit decommission paths to shrink change surface and preserve capacity to evolve.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:12Agile and Architecture
3. 5:07Agile and Architecture
4. 9:42Software architect's rise and fall
5. 13:59Agile killed Architecture
6. 20:21Agile revolution aftermath
7. 26:42Agile practices failures
8. 32:47Change and software systems
9. 39:06Change impact on systems
10. 44:01Sustainable teams and systems
11. 51:53Summary

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