In recent years the emphasis has been on "emerging" architectures where the design is iterative and occurs alongside typical agile sprints.  My view is that this has led to larger development costs (and more fragile code due to increased technical debt) for a number of projects.  Not just from poorly performing architectures requiring extra changes or more hardware allocated to ...

Synopsis In this blog post we're going to cover where architecture fits in the new world of agile development and why it is still required. What is Software Architecture? It's best described by making use of an analogy. I have a problem: I need an office.. The Architect helps me to formulate what I need versus the budget I have; how many people?  how many desks?  what faci ...