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Task 10: Maintain the
Architecture and Its
Representations
15.1 Introduction
During this MFESA task, the architecture teams maintain the architecture and its representa-
tions, while ensuring that the integrity of the system architecture and its representation does not
degrade over time (Figure 15.1).
ere is an unfortunate tendency for some stakeholders to believe that system architecture
engineering is a one-time effort that, when completed, never has to be revisited. ey feel that
once the check is made in the architecture box, the architecture documentation can be placed on
the shelf and forgotten. But although a good system a