11Real-World Case Studies

It goes without saying that you can only appreciate the full appeal of an architectural analysis if you examine your own system or at least participate in its examination. Of course, a book is no substitute for experience, but the following case studies should nevertheless give you a good idea of what system analysis is all about.

Anonymous case studies

The companies involved have all given me their consent to publish the following case studies under the proviso that the domain identifiers for their systems are anonymized. The Epsilon system is the only exception.

MMI classification

The Modularity Maturity Index (MMI) introduced in Section 4.5 makes it possible to compare the modularity of different systems. Figure 11-1 ...

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