XP Architects should make themselves redundant
12 May, 2003
PragDave reports on a talk by Martin Fowler at rOOts. Quick summary:
- An architecture (according to Ralph Johnson) documents the design decisions that are difficult to change.
- In an agile project, we strive to minimise the number of things that are difficult to change.
- Therefore (says Fowler), the role of Architects in an agile project is to make themselves redundant!
I assume we're not talking redundancy in a financial sense :-) But certainly, the senior technical people should use their design expertise to avoid the steel framework and lumps of concrete that make a system difficult to change.
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