The journey continues: Discovering my role as an architect in an agile environment

Abstract

This paper continues telling the story begun in “It has been a long journey, and it is not over yet” (published in Agile Process in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming XP2015, Helsinki – 2015). This experience report tells the tale of the quest to define the role of the architect and of architecture in an agile environment. The primary observation here is that people skills are a key factor in that role.