TY - CHAP
T1 - Improving the collaboration between enterprise architects and agile teams
T2 - A multiple-case study
AU - Uludağ, Ömer
AU - Reiter, Niklas
AU - Matthes, Florian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In an increasingly digital world, traditional enterprises are confronted with rapidly changing customer demands, increasing market dynamics, and continuous emergence of new technological advancements. Confronted with the imperatives of a digital world, companies are striving to adopt agile methods on a larger scale to meet these requirements. In recent years, enterprise architecture management has established itself as a valuable governance mechanism for coordinating large-scale agile transformations by connecting strategic considerations to the execution of transformation projects. However, the collaboration between enterprise architects and agile teams is not always frictionless as both exhibit antithetic mindsets. Against this backdrop, we present a multiple-case study of five leading German companies that aims to shed light on this field of tension. Based on our results from 68 semi-structured interviews with 25 industry experts, we present a set of tactics for improving the collaboration between enterprise architects and agile teams.
AB - In an increasingly digital world, traditional enterprises are confronted with rapidly changing customer demands, increasing market dynamics, and continuous emergence of new technological advancements. Confronted with the imperatives of a digital world, companies are striving to adopt agile methods on a larger scale to meet these requirements. In recent years, enterprise architecture management has established itself as a valuable governance mechanism for coordinating large-scale agile transformations by connecting strategic considerations to the execution of transformation projects. However, the collaboration between enterprise architects and agile teams is not always frictionless as both exhibit antithetic mindsets. Against this backdrop, we present a multiple-case study of five leading German companies that aims to shed light on this field of tension. Based on our results from 68 semi-structured interviews with 25 industry experts, we present a set of tactics for improving the collaboration between enterprise architects and agile teams.
KW - Enterprise architecture management
KW - Large-scale agile transformation
KW - Multiple-case study
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090368691&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-49640-1_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-49640-1_18
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85090368691
T3 - Intelligent Systems Reference Library
SP - 347
EP - 366
BT - Intelligent Systems Reference Library
PB - Springer
ER -