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SE Radio 236: Rebecca Parsons on Evolutionary Architecture
Johannes Thönes talks to Rebecca Parsons, Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtWorks, about evolutionary architecture. The practice of evolutionary software architecture means making decisions as late as possible (last responsible moment) and setting up cross-functional requirements that the architecture has to meet (architectural fitness function).
In the beginning, Parsons and Thönes introduce the term evolutionary architecture and explain the difference to emergent design. Parsons also explains why big design upfront is a bad idea and why we still need architecture even in Agile projects…
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