Agile Enterprise Architecture and DeliveryAgileEAD 2025

Combining agile thinking with proven enterprise architecture strategies can enhance long-term viability and delivery success in complex IT landscapes. Agile is ideal for rapid development and customer-focused features, but in large companies with legacy systems, it can lead to unaligned developments and negative consequences. This has made some IT leaders skeptical of agile.

Conversely, upfront analysis and design of large systems often fail due to lack of management support and difficulty maintaining focus. The challenge is balancing short-term and long-term architectural design to confidently deliver complex solutions. Agile does not mean no documentation or long-term planning. Documentation should facilitate communication, especially in large systems interacting with legacy systems. Proper documentation supports agile approaches and addresses security risks by tracking inventory and data sets.

Long-term planning is crucial to prevent data proliferation and ensure the application landscape supports future development. Organic growth must be balanced with pruning and refactoring. Frameworks and guardrails, like domain definitions and APIs, guide ongoing development of enterprise-wide applications.

This workshop invites experts to share real-world examples of combining enterprise architecture with agile delivery for efficient and successful outcomes.