Agile Architecture Training

Agile has become common place for development teams. Organizations continue to promote its use. However, all too often, while some improvement has been enjoyed, the full measure of promised benefits and outcomes are falling short. Businesses and their technical teams are eager to enhance their Agile experience, but often struggle to identify what the underlying issues are and how to mitigate them. In this focused training, we will learn about the proven techniques to perform a health check on the current Agile practice, determine the central issues limiting overall success levels, and set in motion corrective actions to mature the Agile practice. Leveraging Agile Architecture practices, teams will be able to evaluate their day to day interactions and processes to better understand the potential of Agile and to design a practical plan to deliver meaningful and tangible changes.

While many have heard of Agile, most have had varying degrees of exposure to it and everyone possesses different opinions about it. Add to this, it is questionable the degree to which architecture is seen and understood by teams working with Agile. Any enterprise system, such as Agile software development for business products, demands the skill and attention of architecture. Agile Architecture is a specialized program which understands and promotes proven ways to succeed at Agile. Recognizing that each organization has their own culture and approaches to both architecture and Agile, this course seeks to unify teams through meaningful discussions on the industry best practices for Agile and Agile Architecture. Practical activities throughout the training session ensure mastery of the concepts for practical everyday use.

This course starts with the story of how Agile arose to set the stage for understanding the motivation behind its continued pervasiveness. It then walks through the details of what is affected by doing Agile and who is involved with a focus on the role of the architect.

This course takes the next step to improve architecture work for Agile projects. Agile presents unique sets of challenges for managing both requirements and stakeholders, requiring responsive and supporting governance. It is a mixture of lectures and exercises providing opportunities to put into practice industry recommended approaches.

This course walks through the steps involved in implementing the Agile Architecture program at the solution architecture level. It starts by looking at the foundation elements required, with discussions on how to link with Agile governance in practical ways to support project work. The focus then moves on to examine what has to be done in architecture to ensure success by recognizing and avoiding common pitfalls.