Rechtin on Ultraquality - The Challenge
Excellence Beyond Measure and the need for Ultraquality Systems
Continuing the complex systems architecture theme and discussion of ultra-quality systems, the excerpt below is taken from Eberhardt Rechtin, Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems, 1991, Chap 8.
Several issues spring to mind today, particularly how the need for some ultra-quality systems continues to be driven . . .
Rechtin on Ultraquality - Redundancy and Fault Tolerance
The Writings of a Complex Systems Architecture Legend
In his classic (but criminally overlooked) 1991 book "Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems," Eberhardt Rechtin discusses technical, managerial and architectural responses to the challenge of building high quality systems. Despite being several decades old, 'modern' techniques like Lean manufacturing . . .
Quality Factors for Continuous Delivery
Architectural Quality Factors Revisited... for CD
In an initial post on architectural quality factors, we describe the...
availability, modifiability, performance, security, testability, and usability
... of software intensive systems [Bass et al, 2013].
The goal of Continuous Delivery is for systems to be able to 'continuously demonstrate their . . .
Agile Architecture
Molly Dishman and Martin Fowler
An interesting keynote from Molly Dishman and Martin Fowler, on the changing role of architecture.
Takeaways
- Diffusion of Architectural Responsibility
- We no longer need architects, technical leads are doing the architecture?
Q. How do we make sure that 'architecture' is still . . .