Agility, Architectural Quality Are Not in Conflict

by Jens Coldewey

In his recent Advisor "Service-Oriented Agile Projects -- Contradiction or Necessity?" Cutter Senior Consultant Paul Allen wrote that "agile projects have often struggled with delivering ... long-term quality and scalability." Although I think Paul correctly reflects the state of many projects that pretend to be agile, I'd like to open the debate on whether agility and architectural quality are really in conflict with each other.

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