I'm increasingly persuaded that the best kind of architecture diagrams are ASCII text art. It seems to be the only format that others will edit.
I keep seeing an antipattern where someone draws a comprehensive diagram and it keeps getting used even as it becomes less accurate.
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools => Competence trumps process
Working software over comprehensive documentation => Minimize time from program launch to deployment of simplest useful functionality
I really like the DoD's phrasings of classic agile maxims: