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Modernizing Legacy Systems: Software Technologies, Engineering Processes, and Business Practices
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Modernizing Legacy Systems: Software Technologies, Engineering Processes, and Business Practices

by Robert C. Seacord, Daniel Plakosh, Grace A. Lewis
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 50m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 12. Target Architecture

Target Architecture
 

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

 
 --Frank Lloyd Wright, Time Magazine (Oct. 4, 1953)

In a modernization effort, the target architecture represents the as-desired system, providing the technical vision for the modernization effort. Without this vision, similar operations might be implemented completely differently, making it impossible to predict, model, gauge, or control the qualities of the system. The target architecture can also help to identify and resolve potential design risks resulting from inconsistent or contradictory requirements.

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