Architecture: The Absence of Self-Organisation - Gerrit Beine

 

Jul 26, 2025 #amaberlin 

 

"The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams." 

 

Hardly any other of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto is referenced as frequently as this one. 

• It makes self-organisation appear to be the key to good - the best - software architecture and many architects, coaches and managers look to self-organisation as the solution to the problems inherent in software development. 

Yet architecture is the absence of any kind of self-organisation - in its most expressive form. 

• Even in software development. 

 

This talk will explain why both perspectives are correct and how they are related. 

1.  It will become clear that self-organisation is both a solution and a problem for software development and what makes software architecture so special from the perspective of socio-technical systems. 
2.  And, of course, a few ideas will be shared on how to deal with this realisation in practice in order to design really good software architectures. 

 

Speaker: Gerrit Beine Agile Meets Architecture 2025 https://www.agile-meets-architecture.com #amaberlin