“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. ”
Good design — perhaps a loosely coupled, appropriate blend of expressive, cohesive components — speaks for itself.
When XP arrived, democratising design — empowering the developer crowd — seemed radical. To some it still does.
Agile design bubbles up, just-in-time. Complementary practices, tools and techniques facilitate design evolution and mitigate risks.
“Architecture is about the important stuff. Whatever that is.”
Just-in-time approaches to design fit well into agile development.
Evolutionary design reduces waste from over-engineering and design stock-piling; at the cost of some future reworking — a traditional focus of software architects.
Just-in-time approaches to architecture blend harmoniously with agile.
Let architecture emerge incrementally with no big upfront process.
Pay off pressing technical design debts before they become critical.
“Architecture is the decisions that you wish you could get right early in a project.”
“ Open source is chaotic. With its special magic comes a different reality. ”
Issuing open source an license is not enough. The benefits ascribed arise from opening the development process to a broad community.
Open design extends domain driven, consensual, emergent design beyond the agile team to engage a wider ecosystem.
Community building is non-trivial.
Sustainable communication and cooperation needs space to build and maintain relationships.
Walking the fine balance between technical leadership and openness to crowdsourced design ideas is an art.
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