Agile Architecture
Long ago I studied architecture by designing and constructing buildings for my college. It was a unique program, and, in retrospect, it was an agile development process. Building design is normally a classic waterfall process, so it's interesting to look at what happened... Each project was run by a professor-architect . We began with a plan that included the building program (requirements) and a basic framework for the design, with few details. Every few weeks we would get together and agree on the next part of the project, craft the details, and begin what we might now call a sprint. Every morning we would meet (our scrum): the crew of students, the faculty architect (analogous to the product owner), and our professional contractor (our scrum master). In the summer, we would meet on the site; in the winter (this was Vermont) we would meet in a small construction shack around a hot woodstove, and draw on the walls (which we would paint over periodically). Our designs were increm