AGILE & LEAN

           Enterprise architecture is all about aligning the outputs of an Agile software development process with an organization's overall strategy. This means creating a blueprint for how the software will support business goals and objectives(Estrach, 2020). 

Enterprise Architecture (EA) at T-Mobile can be improved by implementing Agile and Lean principles, which will also increase partnership and helps the business to better align its technological decisions with its long-term objectives.

Customer-Centered Strategy

Agile: Collaboration with clients and responding with their shifting needs are given highest priority in agile principles. This involves EA and relates to the close connection between architectural decisions with company goals and customer needs. To make sure that architectural options match customer expectations, T-Mobile's EA teams will consult with company executives and strongly request their opinions.

Lean: Customer value is given priority accordance to lean principles. Lean EA focuses a priority on understanding and offering what's important most to customers. It Reduces expenses and enhance architectural processes that impact the value of customers.

Iterative and Incremental Development

Iterative development means releasing a product in phases, which are also called iterations. Think of iterations as shorter development and testing cycles applied to one part of the product, or a bare-bones version of a product, before improving the product by building additional features(Gadam, 2023).

Agile: Agile encourages slow and continuous improvement. By breaking the design process into more manageable parts and delivering value over time, T-Mobile's EA departments are able to adopt this approach. This allows for quicker reaction and modification to evolving business needs.

Lean: Lean EA uses a step-by-step strategy for building projects, to make sure design elements change as business requirements change. By performing this, too many advance documents that could become outdated can be avoided.

Minimizing Waste

Agile: Agile EA will decrease waste by placing a lower priority on generating unnecessary documentation or processes and more focus on offering valuable architectural solutions. Reducing activities that have no value is a goal that T-Mobile's EA teams strive for.

Lean: Lean EA ideas can be used to identify and get away of waste in architectural workflows like unnecessary documentation or complicated processes for making decisions.

Estrach, P. (2020, July 20).

How Enterprise Architecture strengthens Agile development

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https://www.mega.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-and-agile-development