Art of Systems Architecting

<p>If engineering is the art and science of technical problem solving systems architecting happens when you don’t yet know what the problem is. The third edition of a highly respected bestseller <strong>The Art of Systems Architecting</strong> provides in-depth coverage of the least understood part of systems design: moving from a vague concept and limited resources to a satisfactory and feasible system concept and an executable program. The book provides a practical heuristic approach to the art of systems architecting. It provides methods for embracing and then taming the growing complexity of modern systems.</p><p></p><p><strong>New in the Third Edition:</strong></p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Five major case studies illustrating successful and unsuccessful practices</li> <br><br><li>Information on architecture frameworks as standards for architecture descriptions</li> <br><br><li>New methods for integrating business strategy and architecture and the role of architecture as the technical embodiment of strategy</li> <br><br><li>Integration of process guidance for organizing and managing architecture projects</li> <br><br><li>Updates to the rapidly changing fields of software and systems-of-systems architecture</li> <br><br><li>Organization of heuristics around a simple and practical process model</li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p> <strong>A Practical Heuristic Approach to the Art of Systems Architecting</strong></p><p></p><p>Extensively rewritten to reflect the latest developments the text explains how to create a system from scratch presenting invention/design rules together with clear explanations of how to use them. The author supplies practical guidelines for avoiding common systematic failures while implementing new mandates. He uses a heuristics-based approach that provides an organized attack on very ill-structured engineering problems. Examining architecture as more than a set of diagrams and documents but as a set of decisions that either drive a system to success or doom it to failure the book provide methods for integrating business strategy with technical architectural decision making.</p>