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Towards Agile Architecting: Proposing an Architectural Pathway Within an Industry 4.0 Project

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Software architecture design, when performed in context of agile software development (ASD), sometimes referred as “agile architecting”, promotes the emerging and incremental design of the architectural artifact, in a sense of avoiding “big design upfront” (BDUF). Performing “agile architecting” is not always straightforward, mainly because the architecture has a required life-cycle and each stage responds to different needs. There is a lack of a pathway that guides agile architecting in an end-to-end approach (from business requirements to deployment). This paper proposes a pathway that includes architecture design from software development life-cycle (SDLC) stages of software development that use ASD approaches, where two main artifacts are considered: a candidate logical architecture and a refined logical architecture. These artifacts are included in a pathway where they receive input from business processes perspective and guide software development during ASD iterations (Sprints).

This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2019.

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    Nuno Santos, Nuno Ferreira & Ricardo J. Machado

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Santos, N., Ferreira, N., Machado, R.J. (2019). Towards Agile Architecting: Proposing an Architectural Pathway Within an Industry 4.0 Project. In: Wrycza, S., Maślankowski, J. (eds) Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education. SIGSAND/PLAIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 359. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29608-7_10

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