Agile Architecture
Agility is a central requirement for many organizations and agility is also impacting the way we, as (IT) Architect's work. We work in an agile way to drive change that creates business opportunity through technology innovation. We will shape and translate business and IT strategy needs into realizable, sustainable technology solutions, whilst taking end-to-end solution delivery ownership from idea to benefits delivery. Being able to respond to change means, that we do not longer create a Big Design Up Front (BDUF) where we define an architecture to be realized over a long period. Instead, the architecture design in an agile context : provides the vision (intentional architecture) where the teams fit in with their (development) work, gives the guard rails between which the agile teams make their own design decisions (emergent architecture), shows where teams need to connect to ensure interoperability between systems/services (solution architecture), provides guidance on generic...