Can Enterprise Architecture be agile?

[jndeverteuil]

Hello Atlassian Community!

Now here's a good one and I know that plenty of people have an opinion on the subject. However, I've been trying to visualize how Enterprise Architecture can integrate smoothly with some Agile Frameworks such as Scrum.

I believe that good Enterprise Architecture (EA) is about planning and aligning the Data, Application and IT Infrastructure in a way that's aligned and supporting to the business objectives and processes. I can see EA being a top-down vision while Agile is also top-down, but on a perhaps smaller scale.

Do any of you have experience with companies that are doing agile Enterprise Architecture? Would you think that JIRA could be a tool enabling the implementation of such framework?