Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World

Paul Clements
James Ivers
Reed Little
Robert Nord
Judith Stafford

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2003-TN-023

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This report compares the Software Engineering Institute’s Views and Beyond approach for documenting software architectures with the documentation philosophy embodied in agile software-development methods. This report proposes an approach for capturing architecture information in a way that is consistent with agile methods.