Design It!

Design Architecture Together

You learned in ​Build Amazing Software​ how software architecture improves our ability to ship awesome software. The architecture, not the architect, provides these benefits. It’s the architect’s job to guide the team to design an architecture so we can get these benefits. In ​What Software Architects Do​ you learned how software architects go about this task, and we’ve expanded on these ideas throughout the book.

Let’s revisit the architect’s key responsibilities from the perspective of our new knowledge:

Define the problem from an engineering perspective.

Architects are responsible for defining the architecturally significant requirements, especially quality attributes. We prefer to use human-centered design methods ...