Improving the collaboration between enterprise architects and agile teams: A multiple-case study

Ömer Uludağ, Niklas Reiter, Florian Matthes

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Systems Reference Library
PublisherSpringer
Pages347-366
Number of pages20
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Publication series

NameIntelligent Systems Reference Library
Volume188
ISSN (Print)1868-4394
ISSN (Electronic)1868-4408

Keywords

  • Enterprise architecture management
  • Large-scale agile transformation
  • Multiple-case study

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Improving the collaboration between enterprise architects and agile teams: A multiple-case study'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this