Enduring Ideas in the Realm of Software
kevindooley Software architecture is often defined as the structure or structures of a system. There’s been a lot of attempts to define architecture from a software perspective and lots of debates over the years. Rather than start from scratch, I thought it would be more helpful to highlight some of the more useful definitions that …
A Scenario and Feature Frame is a quick way to show your project’s incremental value and dependencies. It’s helpful for showing your management what you’ll deliver in terms of a baseline release. It’s helpful for you in terms of finding ways to reduce dependencies. If you have a bunch of scenarios that depend on certain …
Photo by Wonderlane What’s a scenario? Not everybody uses the term “scenario” the same way. In the software industry, there’s three common usages of scenario: The same as a use case. A path through a use case. An instance of a use case. Usually, the most helpful one is “an instance of a use case.” …
Photo by Wolfgang Staudt What is systems architecture and why do we care? A systems architecture supports the highest layers of the enterprise architecture and it helps keep the enterprise architecture aligned to the business. In A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Coad Series), James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler, Michael E. Stevens, James Linn, Vikas …
How do you represent a software architecture? You can use a set of viewpoints including a conceptual architecture view, module view, execution view, and code view. This set of architectural viewpoints was originally proposed by Hofmeister, Nord, and Soni in their book Applied Software Architecture. In A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Coad Series), James …
