The Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition

The Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition
by Mark W. Maier, Eberhardt Rechtin

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Author: Eberhardt Rechtin, Mark W. Maier
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2000-06-28
ISBN: 0849304407
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: CRC

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Book Review: A overall view of the profession for those with architecting expertise
Summary: 4 Stars

If you have questions as a practitioner of systems architecting about your overall architecting approach then I would highly recommend this text. I would also recommend this as a reference book for a systems architecting class at the advanced graduate level. It does provide a balanced view of the discipline for journeymen. The view is presented in multiple dimensions such as builder-architected, manufacturing systems, systems science, and social systems domains. The chapter on models and modeling is very useful to the beginning architect but is somewhat high level. The architecture frameworks chapter is outdated and is shallow. The integrated modeling methodologies (Hatley-Pirbhai, Q2FD) discussion is very brief, but has references for further reading. The section on the systems architecting profession causes the reader to think deeply about the profession.

If you are looking for a system architecting self-help cookbook, this isn't it. Although the appendix lists architecting heuristics, I doubt that those 12 pages alone would be worth the cost. The book will disappoint software-only system architects since much of it is clearly focused on software/hardware co-development and manufacturing systems development.

System architecting is still in its infancy, and this book provides a critical element to that profession's maturation. It identifies some of the domain's critical attributes, but fully understanding this text requires some system architecting background to apply what is being presented.

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Today's architecting must handle systems of types unknown until very recently. New domains, including personal computers, intersatellite networks, health services, and joint service command and control are calling for new architectures-and for architects specializing in those domains. Since the original publication, of this bestselling text, these new and emerging fields have contributed architectural concepts and tools of their own to the relatively new formalism-and evolving profession-called Systems Architecting. The Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition restates and extends into the future the classical architecting paradigm, incorporating the most broadly applicable of these contributions. It remains the most innovative, insightful treatment available to the discipline, providing both the academic and the industrial communities with the up-to-date tools, concepts, and techniques needed to conceive and build complex systems.

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