Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
At a more technical level, the drive for better testability and deployability (particularly testability) encourages engineers to design systems that separate essential and accidental complexity more effectively. This in turn keeps your options more open for changes, even quite radical changes, in other architectural properties of the system. This a
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Each year, it took longer and longer to ship features to customers, and the risk of even small changes causing major problems kept growing. In 1998, developers could make changes and deploy them immediately. By 2004, pushing code changes into production required hours, even days, to be deployed.39 Teams were no longer able to solve Layer 1 problems
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Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
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Software development is an iterative design process. In order to achieve true iteration and realize the value of fast feedback, its activities need to be performed with a single team (having a common reporting line) as far as possible. Many internet business and independent software vendors (ISVs) already operate in this way.