Architecture: The Absence of Self-Organisation

“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” Hardly any other of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto is referenced as frequently as this one. It makes self-organisation appear to be the key to good - the best - software architecture and many architects, coaches and managers look to self-organisation as the solution to the problems inherent in software development.

Yet architecture is the absence of any kind of self-organisation - in its most expressive form. Even in software development.

This talk will explain why both perspectives are correct and how they are related. It will become clear that self-organisation is both a solution and a problem for software development and what makes software architecture so special from the perspective of socio-technical systems. And, of course, a few ideas will be shared on how to deal with this realisation in practice in order to design really good software architectures.

Date

2025-04-04

Time

14:15 - 14:55

Conference / Event

Agile meets Architecture (AmA)

Venue

KulturBrauerei, Berlin