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Agile Book Club: System Architecture

James Shore

But what about the components that make up a deployed system? Those components and interactions form your system architecture. Evolutionary System Architecture. ?? Discussion prompts: How have you seen teams approach designing system architecture? Doc Norton joins us to explore this question further.

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Agile Misconception #2: We Don’t Need Documentation

Atomic Spin

From requirements to systems architecture to design, you’re creating documentation at every step of the process. There is a common misconception that documentation should be done away with entirely in Agile development. Agile Documentation Basics Agile values “working software over comprehensive documentation.”

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Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face

Martin Fowler

No video-conference system can create the that depth of interaction, staring at a computer screen to see what other people are doing is draining, with no opportunity to pop out for a coffee together to break up the work. Informal conversations, mostly not about work, forge the human contact that makes the work interactions be more effective.

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AoAD2 Chapter: DevOps (introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. That continued even after I started practicing Agile. Evolutionary System Architecture” on p.XX

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C4 PlantUML: Effortless Software Documentation

Apiumhub

An excellent way to approach it is with C4 PlantUML—a powerful tool that allows developers to generate comprehensive system architecture documentation with just a few lines of code, making the documentation process not only efficient but also an integral part of the development workflow.

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Agile Misconception #2: We Don’t Need Documentation

Atomic Spin

From requirements to systems architecture to design, you’re creating documentation at every step of the process. There is a common misconception that documentation should be done away with entirely in Agile development. Agile Documentation Basics. Agile values “working software over comprehensive documentation.”

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Key Software Visualization Tools and Benefits

Apiumhub

Software visualization refers to the graphical representation of software systems, code, and related information to aid in understanding, analyzing, and communicating various aspects of software development. Firstly, these tools provide developers with a clear and comprehensive understanding of complex software systems.

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