Why We Need Architects (and Architecture) on Agile Projects

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Argues that agile teams still need active architectural roles and gives concrete practices: use design spikes (hours–days) and bounded architecture spikes (1–6 weeks) as evidence-based experiments; define a landing zone dashboard with minimal/acceptable/outstanding targets for performance, reliability and usability; track architecturally relevant backlog items or a separate architecture backlog; steward critical areas (example: threading control) rather than leave them to collective ownership; treat refactoring as daily vs root canal refactorings and add tests and instrumentation for architectural qualities.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:19Why We Need Architects (and Architecture) on Agile Projects
3. 1:51Three Questions...
4. 2:59Astronaut Architect?
5. 3:43Seagull Architect?
6. 5:04Incompetent Fools?
7. 5:30Agile Design Values
8. 8:17Some Agile Myths
9. 13:04Steward Architect
10. 15:02Stewardship
11. 17:27How Much Architecting Do You Need? Project Criticality
12. 19:38Qualities of Any Good Architecture
13. 20:49Small v. Large Projects
14. 23:24Small Project Architecture Practices
15. 25:22Design "Spikes"
16. 25:47Experiment on Branches
17. 28:32Manage Technical Debt
18. 31:31Keep Architecture in Mind
19. 33:53Sustainable Development
20. 37:10Strike a Balance
21. 38:27Types of Project Risks
22. 46:04Product Landing Zones
23. 47:59Good Acceptance Criteria
24. 48:10What's Different?
25. 49:56Landing Zones on Agile Projects
26. 52:11Architecture Spikes
27. 52:57XP Design Spike
28. 53:22What You Do In an Architecture Spike
29. 54:02Criteria for an Architecture Spike: Actionable Results
30. 55:183 Ways To Manage Architectural Tasks
31. 56:25What Can Go On An Architecture Backlog?
32. 57:43The Agile Architecture Landscape
33. 58:17Differences Between Agile and Traditional Architecture
34. 59:57Values Important to Agile Architects

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