June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
14h 20m
English
Michael Stal, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Some organizations consider software architects as advanced software engineers with a high-technology bias. From their perspective, architects do not require expertise in business and strategy. Even software architects themselves tend to believe they are only responsible for technology and design decisions but not for economic aspects. This attitude leads to solutions that are technically sound but fail to deliver the expected return on investment. If software architects do not understand economics and the business, they cannot come up with economic solutions that support the business ...