Context Combining software architecture and agile development has received significant
attention in recent years. However, there exists no comprehensive overview of the state of …

The importance of architectural knowledge (AK) management for software development has
been highlighted over the past ten years, where a significant amount of research has been …

Literature review studies are essential and form the foundation for any type of research.
They serve as the point of departure for those seeking to understand a research topic, as …

The need to explicitly document design decisions has been emphasized both in research
and in industry. To address design concerns, software architects and developers implicitly …

Architectural Knowledge Management (AKM) has been a major topic in software
architecture research since 2004. Open AKM problems include an effective, seamless …

Architectural design is expected to provide virtuous outcomes of quality software products by
satisfying customer requirements. A foremost apprehension of the customer is to have a …

The outcome and quality of design decisions highly depend on the knowledge reflected
during decision-making. Typically, making design decisions is not one singular action …

Despite the abundance of research on methodologies for the documentation of design
decisions and the evidence linking documentation to the improvement in the systems …

This article aims to encourage more industry–academia collaborations by highlighting
examples of successful collaborations. Through these examples, the authors hope to help …

Abstract Architecture decisions are often not explicitly documented in practice, even though
explicit capturing and documentation of architecture decisions has been associated with a …