TY - CHAP

T1 - Everyone’s Going to be an Architect

T2 - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - HICSS 2020

AU - Horlach, Bettina

AU - Drechsler, Andreas

AU - Schirmer, Ingrid

AU - Drews, Paul

N1 - Conference code: 53

PY - 2020/1

Y1 - 2020/1

N2 - Organizational agility is a prominent aim for companies to thrive in today’s volatile business environments. One common building block of agility are (semi-) autonomous teams for continuously fulfilling and surpassing customers’ needs. However, these teams still need to see the enterprise’s ‘big picture’ of strategic objectives, business processes, and IT landscape to prevent organizational inertia or technical debt. This requires architectural thinking to inform these ‘non’-architects’ decision-making. To aid companies towards achieving sustainable agility, we propose six design principles as underlying logic on how to realize architectural thinking in agile organizations. The results are based on insights from interviews with sixteen employees and consultants with expertise on architecture management and organizational agility across several industries. Our work closes a gap in the agility literature, which so far mainly focused on non-generalizable blueprints for agile setups without showing their underlying logics, or approaches and role set-ups for enterprise-level architecture management.

AB - Organizational agility is a prominent aim for companies to thrive in today’s volatile business environments. One common building block of agility are (semi-) autonomous teams for continuously fulfilling and surpassing customers’ needs. However, these teams still need to see the enterprise’s ‘big picture’ of strategic objectives, business processes, and IT landscape to prevent organizational inertia or technical debt. This requires architectural thinking to inform these ‘non’-architects’ decision-making. To aid companies towards achieving sustainable agility, we propose six design principles as underlying logic on how to realize architectural thinking in agile organizations. The results are based on insights from interviews with sixteen employees and consultants with expertise on architecture management and organizational agility across several industries. Our work closes a gap in the agility literature, which so far mainly focused on non-generalizable blueprints for agile setups without showing their underlying logics, or approaches and role set-ups for enterprise-level architecture management.

KW - Business informatics

KW - agile and lean

KW - organizations

KW - producs and development

KW - agile software development

KW - case study

KW - control entactment

KW - team autonomy

KW - team performance

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092329952&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

SP - 6197

EP - 6206

BT - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020

A2 - Bui, Tung X.

PB - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

CY - Honolulu

Y2 - 7 January 2020 through 10 January 2020

ER -