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Scaling Agile Development Via Architecture
Every system has an architecture, even systems developed using agile methodologies. Whether you attempt to define that architecture up front in detail or whether it emerges over time is up to you. My experience is that most agile teams follow a strategy somewhere between these two extremes, one that involves investing a bit of time up front to think through the "big issues" but which addresses the details on a just-in-time (JIT) basis. That strategy, combined with proving your architectural ideas as soon as possible through working code, results in a very agile and low-risk approach to system architecture. This article summarizes a collection of strategies for addressing architectural concerns on agile projects and discusses how such strategies can be applied to scale agile methods to large development efforts. 

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