The document discusses how architecture and agile practices can co-exist. It begins by defining agile and architecture separately, noting their seemingly opposing philosophies. However, it argues that architecture's goals of conceptualization and planning are still valid. It then outlines five changes an organization like Cerner found necessary to successfully integrate architecture and agile: acknowledging different project scales, shifting from designated architects to a community role, allowing flexibility in documentation, embracing multiple diagram types, and practicing agile architecture with iterative learning. The document advocates balancing discovery and delivery to harmonize the practices.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what
will become of architecture.
Tadao Ando, Hon. FAIA
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12624-tadao-ando?
April 2002
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We have to realize that the "age of discovery"
has brought with it a disruption of the
environment. Now architects are facing the "age
of responsibility." When you design and build
something, you have to consider what you are
taking away from the earth or the environment in
order to make something new.
Tadao Ando, Hon. FAIA
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12624-tadao-ando?
April 2002
From the beginning, Cerner has innovated at the intersection of health care and information technology. Our mission remains to contribute to the systemic improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities.
With health information technology at our core, we employ some of the world’s most talented software engineers, developers and clinicians to ensure the solutions we create for you are consistently state-of-the-art. Today, with over 28,000 associates, Cerner is the world’s largest publicly-traded health IT company. Our 2017 revenue was $5.1 billion and we attribute much of our success to nearly 40 years of creating solutions for some of health care’s toughest challenges.
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https://www.meritalk.com/articles/defense-innovation-board-releases-guide-to-detect-agile-bs/
https://governmentciomedia.com/defense-innovation-board-issues-guide-detecting-agile-bs
https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF
First, why does Agile have such a following? Why are most of us trying to achieve an agile development and support practice? <<cue pizza box & pools of resources picture>>
We’ll hear a lot about agile not only at this conference but in general.
Now, imagine the traditional IT architect. This was an all-knowing, all-controlling role, who even in the movie, discovered that they truly couldn’t control everything with the best design.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/tadao-ando-exhibition/index.html
Speed of change & emphasis on digital modernization creates friction within our organization, our existing systems, our relationships with our stakeholders, and with, well, let’s face it, planning.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/tadao-ando-exhibition/index.html
The Hill of the Buddha: A 13.5 meter-tall sculpture which had been erected in Sapporo, Hokkaido, 15 years before Ando arrived. His brief was to build something that would draw attention to the religious sculpture. So he buried it. Today, the Buddha sits inside a manmade concrete hill covered in lavender, the top of its head just visible. The Buddha is accessible to visitors through a 40-meter tunnel.
https://www.vitra.com/en-us/magazine/details/the-hill-of-the-buddha
And that….we should be taking advantage of those patterns to create reusability and sharing of services across applications.
But the idea definitely has value:
We can make our software and integrations much more nimble by thinking API first,
providing publish / subscribe portals,
and utilizing gateways.
Architecture Roles Vary in Scope & Complexity
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Yet if you don’t know where you’re going, how do you know if you’ve gotten there?
Architecture allows us to paint the picture of where we’re going.
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