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Architecture is a tough sell. It rarely is linked directly to the delivery of a feature, much less is a feature. And without that tie-in, business leaders won’t approve the time and expense to build or improve your architecture.
Of course, as software professionals, we understand why architecture is important. You can build almost any individual feature without investing in any meaningful architecture, but it probably won’t work well, and it’s certain to be difficult to maintain. A good architecture can make development proceed more quickly, make it more likely that you’ll hit your delivery dates, and make maintenance far easier.
Architecture is the BASF of software, then, isn’t it? (”We don’t make the software, we make the software better…”)
No, that’s not going to work very well, either.
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