Episode 23: Architecture Pt. 1

This is the first of a series of Episodes on Software Architecture.
Alex, Michael and Markus talk about rather fundamental topics in
this episode, we'll go into much more detail in subsequent episodes
in that series. Topics in this episode include:

What is architecture, how is it different from design

what different kinds of architecture are there in addition to
software architecture

the role of the architect, do we have one or more?

architecture in agile software development

tasks of the architect

architect vs. the technical project lead

architecture and project politics

architecture requirements, estimating, team assembling

There aren't too many good references for this general
architecture discussion. You might want to take a look at Software
Architecture in Practice by Len Bass, or, if you speak German, at
the book Software-Architektur by Vogel, Arnold, Chugtai, Ihler,
Mehlig, Neumann, Voelter and Zdun.