Improving architectural design decisions

dc.contributor.authorBoake, Andrew B.
dc.contributor.emailandrew.boake@absa.co.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-09T07:12:35Z
dc.date.available2009-03-09T07:12:35Z
dc.date.created2008-06-28
dc.date.issued2009-03-09T07:12:35Z
dc.descriptionThe Post-Proceedings of this Festschrift will be formally published in The South African Computer Journal number 41.
dc.description.abstractThe value of architecture in a corporate information technology environment lies in guidance on technology choice and system design. Underlying this is the ability of the architecture team to research the relevant architectural domains well, to formulate informed strategies, to document these explicitly, and to guide projects in their application. To do this, architects must make decisions between competing directions, and on difficult trade-offs in their application. These decisions are often based solely on experience, gut-feel, even bias. They are typically arrived at using implicit reasoning such as rules of thumb, and are often poorly articulated. This results in poor corporate technology decisionmaking, and unclearly documented architectural direction. This paper investigates what can be done to improve this decision-making. It positions architectural decision-making as an exercise in balancing design forces, and the role of solution architect as facilitator between the representative stakeholders. We describe an experience in building a team which has followed this approach in a particular corporate environment, and document the lessons learnt.
dc.identifier.citationBoake, AB 2008, 'Improving architectural design decisions', in Colloquium and Festschrift at the occasion of the 60th birthday of Derrick Kourie (Computer Science), Windy Brow, South Afica, 28 June 2008. [http://www.cs.up.ac.za/cs/sgruner/Festschrift/]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/9147
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAndrew Boakeen_US
dc.subjectDesign forcesen_US
dc.subjectEnterprise architecture (EA)en_US
dc.subject.lcshComputer science
dc.subject.lcshSystem theory
dc.subject.lcshSoftware architecture
dc.titleImproving architectural design decisionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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