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, "The Art of Systems Architecting" 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. This Third Edition includes: five major case studies illustrating successful and unsuccessfulpractices; information on architecture frameworks as standards for architecture descriptions; new methods for integrating business strategy and architecture and the role of architecture as the technical embodiment of strategy; integration of process guidance for organizing and managing architecture projects; updates to the rapidly changing fields of software and systems-of-systems architecture; organization of heuristics around a simple and practical process model; and, a practical heuristic approach to the art of systems architecting extensively rewritten to reflect the latest developments, the text explains how tocreate a system from scratch, presenting invention/design rules together withclear explanations of how to use them. The author supplies practical guidelines for avoiding common systematic failures while implementing new mandates. Heuses 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 systemto success or doom it to failure, the book provides methods for integrating business strategy with technical architectural decision making. INDICE: The Art of Architecting. New Domains, New Insights. Models & Representations, A Civil Architecture Analogy. The Systems Architecting Profession.Appendices.
- ISBN: 978-1-4200-7913-5
- Editorial: CRC Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 472
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés