Agile Process: Finalize the Architecture and Grow Slowly
Explore how to balance architectural decisions with functional needs while managing the psychological challenges of change. Understand why growing large Agile teams slowly through subteams and coaching enhances knowledge transfer and team cohesion. Learn strategies to finalize architecture and scale team size effectively for successful large software projects.
Finalizing the architecture
After the referential implementation is complete, the starting team often has a lot of ideas about what should be improved and how to develop not only a really good solution but also the world’s best architecture. We have to balance the following arguments and decide how good will be good enough for our architecture.
Arguments worth considering
- Everybody would be proud to call their own architecture the best that has ever been developed, but the domain teams won’t profit from unnecessary flexibility.
- If the rest of the team has already