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As systems grow increasingly large, complex, and costly, software architecture becomes ever more crucial. Software Systems Architecture, 2/e,is the leading practitioner's guide to designing and implementing effective information system architectures. Authors Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods have systematically updated their highly-praised first edition, while retaining the clarity, accessibility, objectivity, and practical focus that have made it indispensable to working architects. Rozanski and Woods focus on real-world issues, superbly blend business and technical concerns, and offer insights that are relevant in all environments, regardless of methodology. Their extensive updates to this edition include: A new System Context Viewpoint, added to the authors'well-received architectural metamodel Expanded discussions of using architectural principles to provide traceability and expose decision-making rationales A discussion of how agile development and architecture can work together Updated, expanded description of enterprise architecture Expanded discussion of relationships between requirements and architecture New "Questions for Discussion" Updated bibliography and reading lists

Nick Rozanski has worked in IT since 1980 for several large and small systems integrators, including Logica, Capgemini, and Sybase, and end user organizations including Marks and Spencer and Barclays Global Investors. He has taken senior roles on a wide range of programs in finance, retail, manufacturing, and government. His technology background includes enterprise application integration, package implementation, relational database, data replication, and object-oriented software development. He is also an experienced technical instructor and certified internal project auditor.

Eoin (pronounced “Owen”) Woods is a lead system architect in the equities technology group of a major European investment bank with architecture and design responsibility for a number of the organization’s key systems. Prior to this, he led the application architecture group at Barclays Global Investors and has worked as a software engineer for Group Bull, Sybase, InterTrust, and Zuhlke, as well as through his own consultancy company, Artechra.

Preface to the Second Edition xv

Acknowledgments for the Second Edition xvi

Preface to the First Edition xvii

Acknowledgments xx

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

Stakeholders, Viewpoints, and Perspectives 1

The Structure of This Book 7

Who Should Read This Book 7

Conventions Used 8

Part I: Architecture Fundamentals 9

Chapter 2: Software Architecture Concepts 11

Software Architecture 11

Architectural Elements 20

Stakeholders 21

Architectural Descriptions 24

Relationships between the Core Concepts 26

Summary 27

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Software Systems Architecture Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

Software Systems Architecture Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

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