
6 The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures
communicate the architects’ other architectural decisions, inventions, trade-offs, assump-
tions, and rationales.
Driver of downstream disciplines. N e system’s architectural representations are devel-
oped early in the system development cycle and capture the strategic decisions, inventions,
and engineering trade-offs concerning how the system will meet its requirements. Because of
this, the architecture and its representations will drive all the downstream effort, including
design, implementation, integration, testing, and manufacturing of the system. e system’s
static physical