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Quality Factors for Continuous Delivery

Architectural Quality Factors Revisited... for CD

Ken McCormack –

Lean Agile Architecture and Development

April 06, 2015

In an initial post on architectural quality factors, we describe the...

availability, modifiability, performance, security, testability, and usability

... of software intensive systems [Bass et al, 2013].

The goal of Continuous Delivery is for systems to be able to 'continuously demonstrate their . . .

Functional Design Focus

Architectural Anti-Patterns

Ken McCormack –

Lean Agile Architecture and Development

April 04, 2015

This describes the concept of a functional-only architectural focus, an extreme example, where architects consider only their functional domain. Here, only half of the system being built is actually being consciously 'designed', the remainder is being evolved by development teams (who may or may not know how to architect large suites . . .