For a long time now it has been unclear how architecture and agile delivery can work together effectively. Over the years, Cyma has worked with many clients facing these challenges. Here are a few of the things we have learnt.
We all know that peer reviews are a good idea, but who has time to do them? Here are some ideas around peer reviews and how we can find ways to do them.
When we created Cyma we wanted to do something a little bit different to everyone else. We could see that there was an opportunity to try something new in a relatively homogenised and traditional IT services market.
To really get ahead you need to make disruption part of your strategy, and make change part of your culture. Look for ways that you can disrupt yourself rather than be disrupted, and create a work environment that encourages change and challenges the norm.
We make great use of pictures in all types of architecture work, whether it is in the form of component diagrams in detailed solution architectures or core diagrams in the more abstract enterprise architecture domain.