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L.L.Bean is a large retail organization whose development processes must be agile in order to allow rapid enhancement and maintenance of its technology infrastructure. Over the past decade L.L.Bean’s software code-base had become brittle and difficult to evolve. An effort was launched to identify and develop new approaches to software development that would enable ongoing agility to support the ever-increasing demands of a successful business. This paper recounts L.L.Bean’s effort in restructuring its code-base and adoption of process improvements that support an architecture-based agile approach to development, governance, and maintenance. Unlike traditional refactoring, this effort was guided by an architectural blueprint that was created in a Dependency Structure Matrix where the refactoring was first prototyped before being applied to the actual code base.
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Hinsman, C., Sangal, N., Stafford, J. (2009). Achieving Agility through Architecture Visibility. In: Mirandola, R., Gorton, I., Hofmeister, C. (eds) Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems. QoSA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5581. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02351-4_8
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