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Monthly Archives: January 2006
Who Are the Architects?
19 January 2006 - Please share: 
There’s a perennial discussion in architecture forums like the WWISA about the role of the architect, and the discussion regularly degenerates into a debate between the broad and narrow views of what the architect does.
But I’m not sure that’s the key question. I think the right question is “Who are the architects?”
Somehow, a number of tasks must be discharged, but how varies from project to project. In the last year I’ve had a modest building project which tells an interesting story about how different people contribute to “the architecture”. Read more here…
Happy New Year!
3 January 2006 - Please share:
Apologies to regular readers who wondered if I’d fallen off the planet. It’s been a busy second half of 2005, and I haven’t managed to do much reading or writing for a few months. However, with the builders gone and a very difficult year over, hopefully things will get back to more nearly normal!
Sorry, there’s no Coppertrees Calendar for 2006 – another casualty of our very busy 2005. Hopefully it will make a return in 2007.I’m currently working on a new paper, looking at the different ways of modelling dependencies in software. I’m hoping it’s possible to merge some of the matrix-based techniques with pattern-based approaches – watch this space for more details.A very Happy New Year to all my readers. Here’s hoping that we’ll all have a slightly easier 2006.
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An Agile Architecture War Story
3 January 2006 - Please share:
I don’t really believe in a common architectural process. As the author of a successful project management book, and recent articles on data architecture methods, I probably shouldn’t say this, but to paraphrase a famous quote, “When I hear ‘process’, I reach for my gun!”
This is a story of a project I worked upon which followed an informal, agile process, but delivered a successful architecture. Hopefully it serves to support my assertion that agile can have an architecture, but needs an agile architect.