The Art of Systems Architecting, Third Edition
- 9h 13m
- Eberhardt Rechtin, Mark W. Maier
- CRC Press
- 2009
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.
In this Book
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Extending the Architecting Paradigm
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Heuristics as Tools
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Case Study 1—DC-3
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Builder-Architected Systems
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Case Study 2—Mass and Lean Production
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Manufacturing Systems
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Case Study 3—Intelligent Transportation Systems
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Social Systems
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Case Study 4—Hierarchical to Layered Systems
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Software and Information Technology Systems
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Case Study 5—The Global Positioning System
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Collaborative Systems
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Representation Models and Systems Architecting
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Design Progression in Systems Architecting
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Integrated Modeling Methodologies
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Architecture Frameworks
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Architecting in Business and Government
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The Political Process and Systems Architecting
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The Professionalization of Systems Architecting
