Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives 2nd Edition
Author(s): Nick Rozanski (Author), Eóin Woods (Author)
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
- Publication Date: 25 Nov. 2011
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 704 pages
- ISBN-10: 032171833X
- ISBN-13: 9780321718334
Book Description
Software Systems Architecture, Second Editionis a highly regarded, practitioner-oriented guide to designing and implementing effective architectures for information systems. It is both a readily accessible introduction to software architecture and an invaluable handbook of well-established best practices.
With this book you will learn how to
- Design and communicate an architecture that reflects and balances the different needs of its stakeholders
- Focus on architecturally significant aspects of design, including frequently overlooked areas such as performance, resilience, and location
- Use scenarios and patterns to drive the creation and validation of your architecture
- Document your architecture as a set of related views
Reflecting new standards and developments in the field, this new edition extends and updates much of the content, and
- Adds a “system context viewpoint” that documents the system’s interactions with its environment
- Expands the discussion of architectural principles, showing how they can be used to provide traceability and rationale for architectural decisions
- Explains how agile development and architecture can work together
- Positions requirements and architecture activities in the project context
- Presents a new lightweight method for architectural validation
Whether you are an aspiring or practicing software architect, you will find yourself referring repeatedly to the practical advice in this book throughout the lifecycle of your projects. A supporting Web site containing further information can be found at www.viewpoints-and-perspectives.info.
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From the Back Cover
As systems grow increasingly large, complex, and costly, software architecture becomes ever more crucial. Software Systems Architecture, 2/e, is the leading practitioner’s guide to designing and implementing effective information system architectures. Authors Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods have systematically updated their highly-praised first edition, while retaining the clarity, accessibility, objectivity, and practical focus that have made it indispensable to working architects. Rozanski and Woods focus on real-world issues, superbly blend business and technical concerns, and offer insights that are relevant in all environments, regardless of methodology. Their extensive updates to this edition include:
– A new System Context Viewpoint, added to the authors’ well-received architectural metamodel
– Expanded discussions of using architectural principles to provide traceability and expose decision-making rationales
– A discussion of how agile development and architecture can work together
– Updated, expanded description of enterprise architecture
– Expanded discussion of relationships between requirements and architecture
– New “Questions for Discussion”
– Updated bibliography and reading lists
About the Author
Nick Rozanski has worked in IT since 1980 for several large and small systems integrators, including Logica, Capgemini, and Sybase, and end user organizations including Marks and Spencer and Barclays Global Investors. He has taken senior roles on a wide range of programs in finance, retail, manufacturing, and government. His technology background includes enterprise application integration, package implementation, relational database, data replication, and object-oriented software development. He is also an experienced technical instructor and certified internal project auditor.
Eoin (pronounced “Owen”) Woods is a lead system architect in the equities technology group of a major European investment bank with architecture and design responsibility for a number of the organization’s key systems. Prior to this, he led the application architecture group at Barclays Global Investors and has worked as a software engineer for Group Bull, Sybase, InterTrust, and Zuhlke, as well as through his own consultancy company, Artechra.
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