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Breaking the Barriers Between Enterprise Architecture and Agile Methods Presenter: Jim Watson, Senior Consultant, Cutter Enterprise Architecture and Agile Project Management Practices

While enterprise architecture (EA) and agile methods (AM) share the same ultimate goal of providing valuable and timely software to the enterprise, execution issues are tricky. EA and AM are very different in their scope, audience, communications mechanisms, and views of stability, change, and plans.

In this hour-long webinar, Jim Watson will discuss the challenge of using the inherent differences in EA and AM to mutual advantage so that they can be valued and incorporated into an integrated software development capability that is responsive to enterprise concerns and achieves rapid, high-quality, flexible implementation and delivery.

In addition to considering the issues that underlie the EA and AM disciplines, Jim will also address the important people issues. He’ll offer advice on how to break the barrier that is often found between the so-called islands of agile development and the dedicated architecture groups that typically work closer to management.

You’ll learn how EA and AM can indeed provide value to one another through a set of activities and artifacts that recognizes the integrity of each discipline. As with any relationship, there is a cost, as well as a value, to working together. But by focusing on the key aspects of AM and EA that influence compatibility, you can still deliver value in the relationship while maintaining the integrity of each discipline.

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The last 20 minutes of this webinar are devoted to a live Question & Answer session: Get your questions answered by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Jim Watson.

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Are Agile Methods and Enterprise Architecture Compatible? Yes, with Effort

by Jim Watson, Kurt Guenther, and Mike Rosen

Agile Project Management Executive Report, Vol. 6 No. 11

Many come to the conclusion that EA and AM get in each other's way. Even if one were to say that AM and EA are indeed compatible, most accounts would find that compatibility only by placing AM and EA in two distinct sandboxes, thus allowing them to avoid one another. Cutter Consortium, however, is are interested in a richer compatibility between EA and AM that has each providing value to the other. In the Executive Report “Are Agile Methods and Enterprise Architecture Compatible? Yes, with Effort”, Cutter’s Jim Watson, Kurt Guenther, and Mike Rosen show you how EA can provide AM a meaningful jump-start to a project via architectural patterns, common infrastructure and services, development contexts, and testable reference implementations; why EA should reach out to agile teams and assist in the incorporation and integration of enterprise capabilities; and how AM provides EA effective execution and feedback, not only at the project level but also for architectural "spikes" and validation, (re)use, and evolution of enterprise capabilities. Together, EA and AM can deliver greater value to an organization. Here, you can find out more.

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