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Effective Software Architecture: Building Better Software Faster
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Effective Software Architecture: Building Better Software Faster

by Oliver Goldman
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 56m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2

Context

Architecture is, by its nature, the antithesis of an isolated discipline. Architecture teams cannot expect to take static requirements as an input and disappear into isolation for weeks or months, only at the end producing a complete, final architecture.

Furthermore, requirements never state the complete context for an assignment. Requirements—even comprehensive ones—cannot be expected to address every aspect of a product. Architecture teams should be familiar with the product’s current design, its history and evolution, its customer and market, and the channels and methods via which it is sold. These considerations all affect the architecture.

On a similar note, successful products are never truly complete. Each iteration ...

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ISBN: 9780138249205