Agile is Dead – Again

Agile is Dead – Again: "Miko identifies Continuous Delivery as the successor to agile in the market.



 The paradigm of “Continuous Delivery (CD)” seems to be the logical successor to Agile. Continuous Delivery provides an umbrella term that does not specify methodology–and doesn’t require much of a manifesto. Everything you need to know is in the title–you just deliver shippable software in as continuous of a way as possible. This allows a team to pull whichever Agile principles and methods needed in order to achieve that goal. This addresses one of the complaints of Agile, which is that it became a religious movement with gurus–and that these highly paid Agile gurus would come with one-size-fits-all solutions for development teams which were hard to realistically fit to real-world development."



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Ben Morris: What role do architects have in agile development?

Enter the “master developer”

In this case, some kind of design authority is generally required to work across the teams to ensure the integrity of the overall system and spot issues before they become obstacles. This role shouldn’t be confused with governance, where design edicts are sent down to teams from the “ivory towers” and architecture boards. It can only be effective with the consent of the teams.