Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition

Part Four: Architecture and Business

Perhaps the most important job of an architect is to be a fulcrum where business and technical decisions meet and interact. The architect is responsible for many aspects of the business, and must be continually translating business needs and goals into technical realizations, and translating technical opportunities and limitations into business consequences.

In this section of the book, we explore some of the most important business consequences of architecture. This includes treating software architecture decisions as business investments, dealing with the organizational aspects of architecture (such as organizational learning and knowledge management), and looking at architecture as the key enabler of software ...