Architecture and Design

• Top 10 Architectural, Organizational and Process Related Failures
• Aug 6, 2015

Organization and process issues sometimes create the problem and at other times stand in the way of permanent fixes. Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher, authors of The Art of Scalability, offer a "Top 10" list of the most common architecture, organizational and process related failures in small, medium and large sized product groups.

• Software Systems Architecture: Viewpoints and Views
• Nov 10, 2011

Capturing the essence and the detail of the whole architecture in a single model is just not possible for anything other than simple systems. By far the best way of managing this complexity is to produce a number of different representations of all or part of the architecture, each of which focuses on certain aspects of the system, showing how it addresses some of the stakeholder concerns.

• Prologue: Software Architectures and Documentation
• Nov 11, 2010

This prologue to Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2nd Edition begins with short overviews of software architecture and architecture documentation and then discusses architecture views, architecture styles and rules for sound documentation.

• An Interview with Paul Clements on Documenting Software Architectures
• Sep 21, 2010

John Morley interviews Paul Clements about why he wrote Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition. Paul explains why we need to be able to document an architecture so that others can successfully use it, maintain it, and build a system from it.