Agile Architecture IS Possible – You First Have to Believe!
Thu, 2008-02-14 18:18 — Mark Isham
Have you ever been told “Agile works great for UI, but just doesn’t work for large scale systems architecture”? In this experience report, I will review a real world project to redesign a successful large scale ecommerce system that became plagued with growing pains. After the team initially ran to the comfort of a long term waterfall project, cost overruns and escalating problems necessitated a new approach. Enter in Scrum and a focus on iterations and frequent customer feedback, and a once failed project turned into a blazing success.
Process/Mechanics
- Review of the problems we were hitting
- Overview of the initial “monolithic” redesign ideas
- Discuss business pushback on those ideas
- Discuss push to try agile technics to solve
- Cultural resistance faced by original architects from #2
- Talk about the points made and counter-arguments presented
- Review the revised iterative approach to solving
- Followup with results on how that approach worked.