Incremental software architecture : a method for saving failing IT implementations / Michael Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Michael, 1957 June 22- author.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software failures.

Evolutionary programming (Computer science).

Continuous improvement process.

Software architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

"This book will depict rare insights into actual failed-to-perform software systems, followed by comprehensive root-cause analyses identifying the reasons for their unsuccessful execution in production. Remedies will be provided that offer strategies to tackle the chief issues. Last, architecture and design best practices will conclude the discussion. The book will assist users to: Mitigate risks of software development projects Increase return on investments (ROI) Provide effective tools to assess technological achievability and viability Introduce software design best practices for enterprise architecture efforts Identify actual software construction value proposition Foster software assets reuse and consolidation Accelerate time-to-market "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1 The Need for Incremental Software Architecture

End-State Enterprise Architecture: A Risky Proposition

Focus on Incremental Software Architecture

Can Modeling and Simulation Substitute for Incremental Software Architecture?

Platform for Change

Incremental Software Architecture Process

Finally, What Is a System?

Notes

Part One Why Do Enterprise Systems Fail?

Chapter 2 What Is a Failing Enterprise System? Is It Management's Fault?

Can We Learn from Other Failures?

Characterization of System Failures

Chapter 3 Technological System-Level Failures

Part Two End-State Architecture Discovery and Analysis

Architecture Discovery and Analysis Scenarios

Attend to Architecture Discovery and Analysis Prerequisites

Chapter 4 System Fabric Discovery and Analysis

Discover and Analyze System Fabric Patterns

Chapter 5 Application Discovery

Application Discovery Instances

Continuous Application Discovery

What Can Be Revealed with Application Discovery Tools?

Application Identity Discovery

Application Architecture Discovery

Discovery of Application Performance and Resource Utilization

Network Infrastructure Discovery: Is an Application Production Ready?

Asset Management Discovery

Chapter 6 Application Mapping

Application Logical and Physical Topology Mapping

Mapping Application Dependency

Application and Supporting Environment Cataloging

Part Three End-State Architecture Decomposition

Note

Chapter 7 End-State Architecture Structural Decomposition through Classification

Identifying Architecture Perspectives

Keystone Architecture Structure Classification and Decomposition Diagram

Discovering and Classifying Sub-Architectures.

Note

Chapter 8 Business Analysis Drives End-State Architecture Structural Decomposition

Pursuing Business Analysis to Discover Sub-Architectures

Group Business Services to Discover Candidate Sub-Architectures

Employ Business Analysis to Discover Sub-Architectures

Pursue Business Analysis to Classify Sub-Architectures

Grand-Scale Architecture Structure Classification and Decomposition: A Unified Business Perspective

Capturing End-State Architecture Generations

Chapter 9 Technical Analysis Drives End-State Architecture Structural Decomposition

A Quick Guide to Discovering Sub-Architectures

Enterprise End-State Architecture Technical Case Study

Carry Out Technical Profiling to Discover Architecture Capabilities

Grouping Architecture Capabilities to Discover Sub-Architectures

Grand-Scale Architecture Structure Classification and Decomposition: A Unified Technical Perspective

Chapter 10 Business Views Drive End-State Architecture Decomposition

End-State Architecture Decomposition Driven by Business Formations

Decomposing End-State Architecture into Volatile Business Segments

Chapter 11 Environment Behavior Drives End-State Architecture Decomposition

End-State Architecture Environment Behavior Decomposition

End-State Architecture Environment Behavior Levels

Component-Level Behavior Decomposition

Application-Level Behavior Decomposition

System-Level Behavior Decomposition

Environment Behavior Drives End-State Architecture Decomposition

Finally, End-State Architecture Decomposition: A Segmentation Process

Part Four End-State Architecture Verification

Chapter 12 Design Substantiation

A Shift from Software Development to Design Substantiation

Pursuing Architecture Substantiation by Cross-Functional Contracts

RACI Chart

Notes.

Chapter 13 Introduction to End-State Architecture Stress Testing

Scales of Environment Pressures

Architecture Structural Pressures

Behavioral Pressures

Induced Pressures by Volatile Architecture Areas

Chapter 14 End-State Architecture Stress Testing Driven by Pressure Points

The Justification for Inserting Pressure Points

Inserting Pressure Points in an End-State Architecture

Methods of End-State Architecture Stress Testing

Chapter 15 Enterprise Capacity Planning for End-State Architecture

End-State Architecture Artifact Studies

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Enterprise Capacity Planning Modeling

An Enterprise Capacity Plan for an End-State Architecture

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119213697

111921369X

9781119125365

1119125367

9781119213680

1119213681

OCLC:

928136923