Utility trees and quality attributes
I recently answered this question in Stackoverflow : What is an utility tree and what is it’s purpose in case of Architecture tradeoff analysis method(ATAM)? I did answer the question there but here’s a better explanation with lots of examples base on the initial version for chapter 1 of SOA Patterns (which didn’t make it into the final version of the book). There are two...
Read MoreSoftware architecture should start with Why
I recently saw Simon Sinek‘s TedX talk on Start with Why (see below) talking about leadership. But WHY am I telling you this? For one, it’s a good talk on leadership and inspiration in itself (well worth the 18 minutes or so it would take you to watch it). The main reason, however, as the title says, is that it also pertains to software architecture decisions. Simon talks about...
Read MoreEvolving Architectures – Part I What’s Software Architecture
I’m writing a short series of posts for MS Israel MCS blog (in Hebrew) and I’d thought I’d translate them to English, as it seems to me they are interesting enough. In this series I am going to talk about Evolutionary Architecture or , some of the aspect of dealing with software architecture in agile projects. The topic is interesting since architecture and agile seems to have some...
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