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Anvi Staff answered 3 years ago
Agile architecture refers to the architectural approach used in Agile software development methodologies. It emphasizes flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness to change throughout the software development process. Unlike traditional architecture, which often involves extensive upfront planning and documentation, agile architecture focuses on incremental and iterative development.
In agile architecture, the software architecture evolves over time as the project progresses and as new requirements emerge. This iterative approach allows teams to make architectural decisions as needed, based on the current state of the project and feedback from stakeholders. Agile architecture promotes collaboration, continuous improvement, and the delivery of working software in short iterations or sprints.
Key principles of agile architecture include:
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- Prioritizing working software over comprehensive documentation.
- Embracing change and responding to it quickly.
- Breaking down large projects into smaller, manageable components.
- Iteratively refining and improving the architecture based on feedback.
- Fostering collaboration and communication among team members.
Agile architecture supports Agile development practices through collaboration, emergent design, intentional architecture, and design simplicity. Like Agile development practices, Agile architecture also enables designing for testability, deployability and releaseability.
An Agile architectural environment involves the analysts, the developers and the user/client from the very beginning. And the interaction between them is ongoing throughout the project development. One of the primary benefits of this approach is the ability to avoid misunderstanding or mis-communications. Another is the ability to adjust for changes since, with an Agile approach, changes are only likely to affect small portions of the overall system, minimizing the need for change driven coding.