George Allan

TL;DR: A grounded theory of agile architecture is presented that describes how agile software teams answer the question of how much upfront architecture design effort is enough to help them determine how much effort they should put into up-front design.

TL;DR: Early results show that the experience of the architects and predefined or template architectures both help to reduce the architectural effort required without sacrificing the benefits of a full architecture design.

TL;DR: It is found that distributed teams need significant support from senior management in terms of organisational culture, human resource management, financial sponsorship, infrastructure and technology, and customer liaison.

TL;DR: Five approaches to distributing expertise in Agile teams are revealed: embracing a master-apprentice model, coaching and mentoring, engaging hands-on learning, establishing discussion platforms and disseminating explicit knowledge.

TL;DR: Grounded Theory research into how much architecture agile teams design up-front has identified system complexity as an important factor in determining how much planning a team does up- front, while system size, although related to complexity, has a much less direct impact.