The Art of Systems Architecting (Systems Engineering)

by Mark W . Maier (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $122.18

  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. New in the Third Edition: * Five major case studies illustrating successful and unsuccessful practices * 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 A Practical Heuristic Approach to the Art of Systems Architecting 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.