The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

Abstract

This book is the first book of a new generation of books that will provide guidelines for how to develop systems in this way. The book strongly emphasizes, as have others, that there is no one-size-fits-all set of architecting guidelines and representations. But this book breaks new ground (while being practical and useful) by providing an architectural framework that can be tailored to a project’s particular situation. It provides a ten-task process (in which steps can be performed concurrently) that enables one to evaluate a project’s architectural options with respect to its situation; to synthesize a solution; to verify and validate its feasibility; and to elaborate it into a solid build-to set of architectural representations.