Incremental Software Architecture: A Method for Saving Failing IT Implementations

THE BEST–PRACTICES SOLUTION GUIDE FOR RESCUING BROKEN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Incremental Software Architecture is the only guide you need to proactively root out and repair failing software systems, while mitigating the impact to a company′s system, budget, and future risk.

The wrong software system increases a company′s risk of failure so much, it′s a question of when, not if, something goes catastrophically wrong. This practitioner′s guide gives you all the strategies and methods used by industry leaders for designing custom–fit software systems, along with cautionary advice on how to avoid developing systems destined to fail. Engineer with confidence using the step–by–step approach that enables you to design and test your software system through every sector of the enterprise. You′ll turn to this cutting–edge resource again and again for its:

Proven best practices for developing software systems that reduce business risk A revealing collection of case studies illustrating how and why software systems underperform Refreshing perspective and tactics for gaining a competitive edge by operating with smaller, more adaptable management and technical groups

If it′s broken, fix it right with Incremental Software Architecture.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1: The Need for Incremental Software Architecture

Part 1: Why do Enterprise Systems Fail?

Chapter 2: What is a Failing Enterprise System? Is it Management s Fault?

Chapter 3: Technological System–Level Failures

Part 2: End–State Architecture Discovery and Analysis

Chapter 4: System Fabric Discovery and Analysis

Chapter 5: Application Discovery

Chapter 6: Application Mapping

Part 3: End–State Architecture Decomposition

Chapter 7: End–State Architecture Structural Decomposition through Classification

Chapter 8: Business Analysis Drive End–State Architecture Structural Decomposition

Chapter 9: Technical Analysis Drive End–State Architecture Structural Decomposition

Chapter 10: Business Views Drive End–State Architecture Decomposition

Chapter 11: Environment Behavior Drive End–State Architecture Decomposition

Part 4: End–State Architecture Verification

Chapter 12: Design Substantiation

Chapter 13: End–State Architecture Stress Testing Environment

Chapter 14: End–State Architecture Stress Testing Driven by Pressure Points

Chapter 15: Enterprise Capacity Planning for End–State Architecture

Index

MICHAEL BELL is the founder of Methodologies Corporation, a leading business and technology modeling company offering modern and innovative agile approaches to reduce enterprise expenditure and increase productivity and profitability. His clients have included AIG, Prudential, J.P. Morgan, Chase, Citibank, UBS Paine Webber, American Express, and the U.S. government.