• Become a great software architect—hands-on! 
• Define architectures that leverage today's best design patterns 
• Maximize scalability and technical flexibility 
• Lead your technical organization to successful implementation 

Your hands-on "field manual" for becoming a great software architect!

This hands-on "field manual" gives developers the essential skills they need to survive and thrive as software architects! You'll find insightful, real-world coverage of everything from design patterns to prototyping, business case development to leadership.

Leading software architects Raphael Malveau and Thomas Mowbray share profound insights and practical solutions for all the key challenges of architectures using objects, components, and distributed Internet computing, showing how to avoid time-consuming pitfalls and costly errors. You'll master proven methods for:

• Identifying the best architectural model for any project
• Executing heavyweight or lightweight approaches to software architecture 
• Addressing scalability and long-term business flexibility
• Making the most of abstraction, refactoring, and architectural prototyping 
• Leveraging superior design patterns to improve your implementations 

With hands-on exercises, real-life war stories, and a take-no-prisoners attitude, Software Architect Bootcamp won't just help you become a great software architect: it'll help you become a true technical leader of your organization.

RM-ODP defines and resolves many of the challenges faced by systems architects and engineers architecting a distributed computing system, large or small. This ISO standard offers powerful solutions to complex structural and semantic issues while encouraging cost-effectiveness and reusability.

This book identifies the available tools that currently support RM-ODP, and paves the way for new tools that are under development in the vendor community. It also covers:

• Software architecture specification in an object world
• Complete guide to the International Standard Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP)
• Enterprise-wide as well as component architecture
• Applications for business, government, and university research 

Architecting with RM-ODP provides a best-practice approach to the creation of an architectural specification using both current practices and RM-ODP. A pair of real-life case studies uniquely illustrates the principles of project development as they teach:

• Creating specifications at the appropriate level of detail
• Relating business needs to architectural specification
• Ensuring conformance of the implementation to the specified architecture 
• Identifying ways of specifying semantic behavior 

Software Architecture: Organizational Principles and Patterns offers the first complete roadmap for building software architectures that achieve the most demanding goals—now, and for years to come. Discover how to:

• Establish a product-line architectural framework and vision 
• Implement architectures that anticipate and predict change
• Address the organizational issues that make or break enterprise software architectures 

The authors, a team of leading architects, will show you how to field resilient, long-lasting architectures. Software Architecture: Organizational Principles and Patterns introduces the breakthrough VRAPS (Vision, Rhythm, Anticipation, Partnering, and Simplification) model for software architecture and demonstrates how to leverage it through real-world case studies, patterns, and antipatterns.

Whether a structure is built of bricks, steel, or computer code, the process begins with an architect and client. Together they arrive at a shared vision—a plan—that the architect guides through the bidding, construction, and implementation phases. The Parthenon and the Empire State Building were built according to architectural designs, but the software industry has been building information skyscrapers without architects. It is time for the profession to become a reality.

Successful software-based technology is designed, then built. It does not "develop." Who creates the design? An enormous grass-roots demand exists for software architects-but a true profession of software architecture is not yet established. Many software professionals adopt the gravitas of the title "software architect," but fail to fulfill the true, classical role. Drawing on deep metaphors from traditional architecture, Marc T. Sewell, President of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, and Laura M. Sewell examine the nature of architecture, what defines a software architect, and how the profession is coming of age.

The Software Architect's Profession is lingo-free. It is a book of philosophy that will enable anyone to understand software construction, and it is the first "line in the sand" defining the parameters of this fledgling, yet ancient, e-profession.

Key areas include:

• Bridging the chasm that separates clients from technical professionals
• Differentiating the professions within the software construction industry and defining the roles and accountabilities of software engineers and software "builders"
• Discussing the vocational temperament and aptitudes that characterize architects
• Reviewing the phases of architecture
• Describing the critical role of the client in understanding and validating the design and construction of software

Whether you are a CIO, CEO, IT manager, software professional, or student, you inhabit software structures, and your world is profoundly affected by their design. The Software Architect's Profession offers a simple cognitive map that will change your world view of software architecture, construction, and the information structures we live and work in everyday.

Introduces the concept of Enterprise Architecture, using the Framework developed by John Zachman

This book introduces you to enterprise architecture and a tool to guide you through the comprehensive process of thinking, reasoning, and communicating effectively about even the most complex problems. Using lessons from history, psychology, business, and information technology, a foundation is built of enterprise architecture concepts using the Framework. This is the first publication to cover and illustrate enterprise architecture using all 36 cells.

IT professionals will learn how to: • Implement the Framework • Think holistically • Focus on communication and culture • Align business objectives and architectures • Discover how personality traits may affect business success • Keep the enterprise flexible and integrated

Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework is for all who need to understand and manage the planning, design, and construction of any complex endeavor. The book leads business managers and their business experts--at all management levels--through the use of enterprise architecture using the Framework. The book also teaches experienced IT staff how to think about the planning, design, and construction of systems that are needed to support the enterprise.

Features • Shows how to naturally apply current object-oriented approaches, patterns, and extreme programming approaches to the Framework • Demonstrates how personalities and politics affect decisions for the enterprise • Presents Zachman Depth iNtegrating Architecture (DNA), an implementation extension • Illustrates how paying attention to details allows the enterprise to survive • Presents the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture in its entirety • Discusses technical issues of systems development that are important to the subcontractor • Enables IT people to understand the business needs from an IT perspective

“This is a brilliant book that not only informs and instructs, but also entertains! This is why I love it. Not just for the book’s importance, but because it is fun to read.” From the foreword written by Clive Finkelstein, Managing Director, Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd

This book presents the Simon Visual Language - the first uniform visual language for business and technology. Utilizing the SimonTool, it enables software architects, domain architects, analysts, executives, planners, consultants, MBA's, and engineers to communicate business and technology concepts with blueprints. Business and technology strategies, initiatives, products, processes and organizations can be graphically depicted across an enterprise, replacing the current, awkward patchwork of words, spreadsheets, clipart, boxes, and arrows. Drawings created with the Simon Visual Language are thoroughly analogous to building construction plans; both use a tacitly understood visual language to communicate a vision and validate progress at all levels. The book explains the Simon Visual Language, its application to business, and how drawings and business blueprints are created. Michael Porter's Competitive Forces and Value Chain Analysis models, Balanced Scorecard, and other models are presented visually using the Simon Visual Language. The book also maps a sample project. This full-color book is produced entirely in the Simon Visual Language, attesting to the power of this approach to communicate with enhanced speed, efficacy, and aesthetics.

This book presents the Simon Visual Language - the first uniform visual language for business and technology designed for software architects not programmers. Utilizing the SimonTool, it enables software architects, domain architects, analysts, executives, planners, consultants, MBA's, and engineers to communicate business and technology concepts with blueprints. UML is fine for communicating code-level designs with programmers but software architects must validate designs with business professionals as well as programmers. Object models, interaction diagrams, use cases, physical models, enterprise architecture models, user interface designs, and many other models and frameworks can be represented with the Simon Visual Language in a visual manner that business professionals will immediately understand and appreciate - and use for their own business modeling. Simon, Simon UML, or Simon mapped to UML. can then be used to present to developers.  The book also contains a quick start project. This full-color book is produced entirely in the Simon Visual Language, attesting to the power of this approach to communicate with enhanced speed, efficacy, and aesthetics.