Integrating Agile Software Development and Enterprise Architecture Management

Practitioners consider the focus of Agile Software Development and Enterprise Architecture Management as divergent. Following this view, two questions arise and are answered by this paper: whether and how agile methods such as Scrum can be used to create architecture deliverables and how enterprise architects can collaborate with agile software development teams. Based on expert interviews in a major German consultancy, a railway company, and an automotive OEM an integration of the TOGAF ADM and Scrum has been developed and evaluated following the Design Science research process. Both questions are answered by two different procedure models, one to be used on TOGAF´s Enterprise Strategic and Segment Architecture Level and another for the Capability Architecture Level. The first enables the creation of the EA in form of Scrum projects. The second focuses on the necessary collaboration of empowered implementation teams with a central EA function.