"A well functioning technology stack is crucial for maintaining high availability, low defect rates, performance, scalability, quick feature delivery, and developer morale. It's easy for architecture decisions to fragment and breed technical debt as organizations grow into dozens of teams, eventually slowing feature delivery to a crawl.
Intentional architecture is a process that balances technical alignment with team autonomy to make better decisions, minimize technical debt, and maximize team productivity. Top-down architecture planning never works in the real world, but a bottom-up approach that thoughtfully elevates team decisions to the broader organization can be highly successful.
This talk will cover how technical debt affects team performance as organization size grows, why traditional top-down architecture planning doesn't work, and how to integrate a bottom-up intentional architecture processes within agile organizations. We'll discuss examples of organizational decisions that introduce impediments for cross-functional teams, and how to introduce an architecture alignment process that is an enabler instead."
