Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development 1st Edition

by James O. Coplien (Author), Gertrud Bjørnvig (Author)

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More and more Agile projects are seeking architectural roots as they struggle with complexity and scale - and they're seeking lightweight ways to do it

Still seeking? In this book the authors help you to find your own path
Taking cues from Lean development, they can help steer your project toward practices with longstanding track records
Up-front architecture? Sure. You can deliver an architecture as code that compiles and that concretely guides development without bogging it down in a mass of documents and guesses about the implementation
Documentation? Even a whiteboard diagram, or a CRC card, is documentation: the goal isn't to avoid documentation, but to document just the right things in just the right amount
Process? This all works within the frameworks of Scrum, XP, and other Agile approaches

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It's time for change - after 30 years, DCI has risen to complete the vision of object-oriented programming!

Aiming at no less than a paradigm shift, Lean Architecture uses a modern approach to software design, while embracing refreshing new insights of Lean and Agile. Giving a down-to-earth view of Agile requirements and the often-ignored relationship between requirements and architecture, this book goes beyond the fashionable idea of User Stories, and shows you how to employ Use Cases in a lightweight, incremental, Agile way. The authors detail the DCI (Data, Context and Interaction) architecture paradigm and show how DCI succeeds where object-oriented programming languages alone have failed to integrate software design with the end user's understanding of the overall business structure.

However, this is not a methodology book, but a book which focuses on code, with plenty of code examples. Topics covered include: Agile production, Stakeholder Engagement, Organizational issues, Scala/Python/Java implementation of the DCI account example, Qi4J and much more.

Renowned software architecture expert James Coplien and agile requirements expert Gertrud Bjørnvig share their expertise to give you concrete design advice that will help you:

Create software that builds on your end-user mental models rather than design methodologies
Write software that can directly be verified against behavioral requirements
Organize - so that all your stakeholders support each other
Support rapidly changing feature code in stable domain code to help embrace change

Lean Architecture casts a new light over important aspects of software development that have been marginalized or forgotten by the agile movement – it will help you find your own path.

About the Author

James O. Coplien is a writer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Computer Science. He has made key contributions in the areas of software design and organizational development, software debugging, and in empirical research. His early work on C++ idioms was one of the three primary sources of the popular Design Patterns. His work on Organizational patterns was an inspiration for both Extreme Programming and for Scrum. Cope was a founding Member of Hillside Group with Kent Beck, Grady Booch, Ward Cunningham, Ralph Johnson, Ken Auer and Hal Hildebrand. He is responsible for starting up several of the conferences in the Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) conference series and is a longstanding pattern author and PLoP shepherd.

Gertrud Bjornvig is an experienced software consultant and trainer and has been in software development since 1984. She's been working on development teams as a developer, analyst, and project manager, and has had cross-organizational roles as methodologist and process consultant. Her background is in object-oriented development, including extensive work with UML and RUP. Gertrud has been employed by Enator, Navision, Microsoft, and TietoEnator, but since June 2007 she has been independent as a part of Gertrud & Cope.
Gertrud holds a Master in Computer Science and Communication and is one of the founders of Danish Agile User Group.

Paperback: 376 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470684208
ISBN-13: 978-0470684207
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 19 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #523,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #480 in Software Design & Engineering

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Wisdom from experience

January 25, 2011

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I have the greatest respect for this author for the contributions he has made to the software development industry. This is a very good book to read to get his view of software development.

This book is a great read if you are an experienced developer. I do not recommend it to people new to the software development industry.

Do not pick this book up and think you are going to learn how to do software architecture. Personally I would have named the book "Thoughts on Lean". I found the book very interesting and found it to contain a lot of great advice, but it does not paint the complete picture of how to accomplish solid software architecture.

I like the DCI coverage, but would only use it if it can be documented better than what is shown in the book. Code is not enough documentation for me.

Personally I will apply the techniques in this book to modular level design and development. Over the years I have found that to be the place agile and lean development practices belong, not at the architecture level. Their programming techniques help to achieve a very modifiable architecture, which to me is the most import quality attribute you should strive for on any project of decent size.

Although my review comes off as a bit negative, the negativity is not a reflection of the quality of this book's wisdom. It is my personal bias against what the agile movement has done to the environments I am constantly finding myself cleaning up. Agile is perceived all to often as the easy road, when in fact it is a road only for the highly experienced and a select few.

All in all I recommend reading this book if you want to broaden your horizon. The personal insight the author provides into building software is worth the time.

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Good Comparison

February 3, 2013

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Good comparison between various methodologies. However, in some cases not apples to apples which makes the comparisons less effective. That being said it does bring home the essentials of agile and lean and to how to combine the two. Could have been shorter.

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Abbas

Don't waste your money

January 1, 2019

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Garbage,

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Don't buy

February 18, 2015

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I bought this for my college software architecture course. The first few chapters were great for learning basics; however, after a couple weeks it becomes unbearable. The book restates the same information over and over. It isn't very informative about lean architecture. The book discusses agile architecture more than it does lean. Save the money, use search engines to find the information instead.

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Will Resendes

A good book that helps explain the concepts of agile development

May 30, 2015

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A good book that helps explain the concepts of agile development. About half way the book gets very technical.

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Majo2469

this author needs to go back to basics

January 8, 2015

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This book is so poorly written that it's almost frustrating to read. The author has attempted to make themselves appear more intelligent by using vocabulary that is unsuitable for the sentence structure. I found several grammatical errors. In addition, one of my biggest issues with this book is that the author repeats the same concept several times in the same paragraph as if to almost filled pages of a book by describing the same concept five different ways. I think it's laughable that an instructor has selected this textbook without getting a kickback from the author or publisher.

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Johan S

All ready a classic

November 19, 2013

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This will be one of the classical books on lean and agile architecture 10 years from now. Read it with reverence.

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Ig Le

Not 5 star book

August 11, 2011

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I didn't like this book at all. The writing style was somewhat strange to me. Lots of blah blah blah it was hard for me to keep my attention. Besides i didn't find anything new or interesting. If you want to read about DCI architecture you can google some info (enter "DCI architecture"). Article in artima is kinda similar style as in the book (just of course book is much more wordy). But for me reading article would be enough to save time and money...
The things I liked are very readable font and very good paper quality. Too bad that besides few good insights I didn't find content and especially style of this book interesting. Maybe its just not my kind of book, but thats my opinion.

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