Agility, Risk, and Uncertainty, Part 2: How Risk Impacts Agile Architecture

Balkans Journal of Emerging Trends in Social Sciences -Balkans JETSS Aims and ScopeThe mission of Balkans JETSS is to publish peer-review empirical research papers that test, extend or build theory and contribute to practice. All empirical methods -including, but not limited to, qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, and combination methods are welcome. Empirical, theoretical and methodological articles from all major fields of economics, management, tourism, law and the like are featured in the journal. Theoretical and/or review articles that integrate existing bodies of research and that provide new insights into the field are also encouraged.To be published in the Balkans JETSS, a manuscript must take strong empirical and/or theoretical contributions to the subject field. Consequently, preference is given to submissions that test, extend or build strong theoretical frameworks while empirically examining issues with high importance for theory and practice.The journal is not tied to any particular discipline, level of analysis, or national context. Although, it focuses on Balkans region, all papers from related fields on any region or country are highly encouraged. Single country studies, multi-country or regional studies can be submitted.Manuscripts should not exceed 16 pages (450 word per page). This page limit includes all figures, tables, appendices and references. Copyright information For AuthorsAs soon as an article is accepted for publication, authors will be requested to assign copyright of the article (or to grant exclusive publication and dissemination rights) to the publisher. This will ensure the widest possible protection and dissemination of information under copyright laws.

Section: Risk and Time Dimension Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2021

“…The architect takes into account the temporal dimension of architecturally important events (Poort, 2016); assesses the architectural impact on risk (Martini & Bosch, 2016;Poort, 2016); assesses the technical risk of developing complex and critical systems (Waterman, 2018b); demonstrates the benefits of new technologies by designing an executable prototype (Erder & Pureur, 2016); understands that erosion of architecture can lead to technical bankruptcy (Sturtevant, 2017); understand and map the essential characteristics of development process selection to the context (Ozkaya, 2019).…”

Section: Risk and Time Dimension Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The architect for the decisions the team makes is consistent throughout the system (Madison, 2010;Buschmann, 2012); influences design decisions that affect the whole system (Buschmann, 2012); protects the conceptual integrity of product architecture and design (Buschmann, 2012;Poort, 2014;Erder & Pureur, 2016); manages technical debt (Zimmermann, 2016); reduces risk to a level that's satisfactory to the team and stakeholders (Waterman, 2018b); balances between risk and agility (Waterman, 2018b); designs for failure in which, instead of preventing failures (reliability), learn how to deal with failures (resilience) (Shahin et al, 2019).…”

Section: Preserving System Integritymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Agile Software Architect in the Age of Digital Disruption and Transformation

Dragičević¹,

Bošnjak

2020

The consequence of the increasing development and use of digital technologies, in every segment of society, is the emergence of digital disruption - a powerful external pressure that is changing the way business is done in all industries. Businesses are responding to digital disruption by digital transformation, which involves organizational change, redefining and aligning digital and business strategies, new business models, increased agility of software development and delivery processes, migration and/or integration of legacy systems using cloud-based platforms and ecosystems. In such a context, one of the key responsibilities of a software architect is to maintain the agility of the organization by defending the flexibility of digital strategy and IT resources so that the enterprise is able to transform and respond adequately and rapidly to the effects of digital disruption. In this regard, the question arises as to how digital disruption and business transformation affect the change in the role, importance, competence and agility of a software architect, especially in the context of the development of complex business software systems. This paper aims to present the role of an agile software architect in the era of digital disruption and transformation, by integrating the results of theoretical and empirical research. A systematic literature review identifies the role, importance, and competencies of a software architect in implementing agile architecture. In other hand, empirical research, based on a case study in a large enterprise, provides a better understanding of the importance of software architect for aligning business and digital strategy, as well as its contribution to increasing the agility of the process of developing, delivering and integrating complex business software systems.

“…The architect ensures that team's decisions are consistent throughout the system (Madison, 2010;Buschmann, 2012); influences design decisions that affect the whole system (Buschmann, 2012); protects the conceptual integrity of product architecture and design (Buschmann, 2012;Poort, 2014;Erder & Pureur, 2016); manages technical debt (Zimmermann, 2016); reduces risk to a level that's satisfactory to the team and stakeholders (Waterman, 2018b); balances between risk and agility (Waterman, 2018b); designs for failure in which, instead of preventing failures (reliability), learn how to deal with failures (resilience) (Shahin et al, 2019).…”

Section: Additional Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The architect has empathy for users and works closely with users -the "follow-me-home" technique (Mirakhorli & Cleland-Huang, 2013); receives real requests from users feedback (Mirakhorli & Cleland-Huang, 2013); assesses team's and customer's risk tolerance (Waterman, 2018b); balances customer demands, with a focus on their delivery (Erder & Pureur, 2016); removes artificial barriers to delivering better, faster, cheaper software to the users (Ozkaya, 2019).…”

Section: Additional Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2019

Balkans Journal of Emerging Trends in Social Sciences-Balkans JETSS Aims and Scope The mission of Balkans JETSS is to publish peer-review empirical research papers that test, extend or build theory and contribute to practice. All empirical methods-including, but not limited to, qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, and combination methods are welcome. Empirical, theoretical and methodological articles from all major fields of economics, management, tourism, law and the like are featured in the journal. Theoretical and/or review articles that integrate existing bodies of research and that provide new insights into the field are also encouraged. To be published in the Balkans JETSS, a manuscript must take strong empirical and/or theoretical contributions to the subject field. Consequently, preference is given to submissions that test, extend or build strong theoretical frameworks while empirically examining issues with high importance for theory and practice. The journal is not tied to any particular discipline, level of analysis, or national context. Although, it focuses on Balkans region, all papers from related fields on any region or country are highly encouraged. Single country studies, multi-country or regional studies can be submitted. Manuscripts should not exceed 16 pages (450 word per page). This page limit includes all figures, tables, appendices and references. Copyright information For Authors As soon as an article is accepted for publication, authors will be requested to assign copyright of the article (or to grant exclusive publication and dissemination rights) to the publisher. This will ensure the widest possible protection and dissemination of information under copyright laws.