Comments on: Agile Architect – An Oxymoron http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2007/03/agile_architect-2.html Best practices for your goals Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Pete Behrens http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2007/03/agile_architect-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-331 Pete Behrens Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://agilepainrelief.com/2007/03/agile_architect-2/#comment-331 Mark, Good question, however wouldn't this compare to saying that a Scrum Master is not needed for the team because they should all be responsible for the process? I would argue that just as a Scrum Master is a critical roll for a team to facilitate the Scrum Process and help the team learn to own this responsibility, an Agile Architect may be used to help a team learn these architecture/refactoring best practices. The best Scrum Master (and I would argue Agile Architect) would be the one that embodies his knowledge into the team so they can do it themselves and the Scrum Master (or Architect) could move on to other more important things. My $0.02 Pete Mark,

Good question, however wouldn’t this compare to saying that a Scrum Master is not needed for the team because they should all be responsible for the process?

I would argue that just as a Scrum Master is a critical roll for a team to facilitate the Scrum Process and help the team learn to own this responsibility, an Agile Architect may be used to help a team learn these architecture/refactoring best practices. The best Scrum Master (and I would argue Agile Architect) would be the one that embodies his knowledge into the team so they can do it themselves and the Scrum Master (or Architect) could move on to other more important things.

My $0.02
Pete

]]> By: Mark Levison http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2007/03/agile_architect-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-332 Mark Levison Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://agilepainrelief.com/2007/03/agile_architect-2/#comment-332 Pete thanks for the comment. In terms of the role you might be right however I'm wary of the of the title. I would prefer the role to be "Architectural Coordinator" - which implies that the person isn't solely responsible for anything. My real concern is that the Architect title allows other team members to abdicate their responsibilities. Cheers Mark Levison Pete thanks for the comment. In terms of the role you might be right however I’m wary of the of the title. I would prefer the role to be “Architectural Coordinator” – which implies that the person isn’t solely responsible for anything. My real concern is that the Architect title allows other team members to abdicate their responsibilities.

Cheers
Mark Levison

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