Agile "Architecture"

I'm not a huge fan of the concept of software architecture. All too often, I find architecture is an excuse to have highly compensated people who don't produce working software. Heck, I even published an article about it.

Still, All too often is not the same as "always."

Scott Ambler has an interesting article on architecture in this month's Agile Journal. His take seems to be that if your team is big enough then you must do some architecture. In that case, the challenge is to keep the architecture light and grounded in reality.

Good stuff.