Motivating Architecture

Software Architecture and Related Concerns

The Architecting Process

The Role of the Architect and More on The Role and Skills

Architecture in  Context

Enterprise Architecture

EA Soapbox

EA Links

Enterprise-Wide IT Architecture (EWITA.com)

Enterprise Architecture Services

Enterprise Architecture Workshop (4-day)
 

Architecture Training

Software Architecture Class

- Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 8-11, 2012

- Johannesburg, South Africa, July 23-26, 2012

- Chicago, IL July 9-12, 20112What it Takes to be a Great Architect Class

- Chicago, Sept TBA, 2012

Architecture Overview Seminar

Architecture Requirements Workshop

UML and Software Architecture

Architecture Program Management Services

Architecture Books

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Software Architecture, Architects and Architecting

Software architecture is getting a lot of attention. Is it just the silver bullet du jour? We think not. It surely is critical to today's business success, yet it requires technical, business and organizational talents and skills that warrant their own path of career development, education, and research.

This site organizes a variety of resources to help enterprise architects and software architects deepen and expand their understanding of architecture and the role of the architect.

Announcements

News

Our latest Report is published: The Art of Change: Fractal and Emergent

ESI and Bredemeyer

Bredemeyer Consulting is pleased to announce that the Embedded Systems Institute will be offering our Software Architecture, Role of the Architect, and Enterprise Architecture Workshops in The Netherlands (these will be taught by Bredemeyer, but included in the ESI portfolio of offerings). The Embedded Systems Institute is a premier research and competency development institute with an emphasis on systems architecture, and we are proud to partner with them.

The Open Group IT Architect Certification Program  Recognizes the Visual Architecting Process: Bredemeyer Consulting's Visual Architecting Process (VAP) is one of the architecture methods recognized by The Open Group; see http://www.opengroup.org/itac/cert/methods.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl  (2006)

Publications

• New!  Our latest report is now ready for download free from the Cutter Consortium site: "The Art of Change: Fractal and Emergent," by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, Cutter Consortium Enterprise Architecture Executive Report, Vol. 13, No. 5, 2010 http://www.cutter.com/offers/artofchange.html. See synopsis.

• A paper on innovation and agile architecture by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, titled "Getting Past "But...": Finding Opportunity and Making It Happen." Cutter Consortium's August 2008 Enterprise Architecture Executive Report. You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/findopportunity.html. See synopsis.

• Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, "Enterprise Architecture as Strategic Differentiator," Enterprise Architecture Executive Report, Cutter Consortium, June 2005. You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/strategic.html

• Dana Bredemeyer and Ruth Malan, "What it Takes to be a Great Enterprise Architect," Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture Executive Report, August 2004.  Cutter is running a promotion, and you can download this issue free at http://www.cutter.com/offers/greatarchitect.html. 
  This report is also useful for solution or platform architects, as well as software architects.  

• Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer are working on the Software Architecture Action Guide book. See Table of Contents to download drafts of chapters. Join our mailing list to receive updates.

Global

• Joe Wirtley's Pragmatic Software Architecture  presentation on InfoQ and slides on Prezi.

• Enterprise Architects: Join the CAEAP or Center for the Advancement of the EA Profession

• LinkedIn Group for Bredemeyer Workshop Alumni: If you are an "alum," it would be great if you'd join the group (please mention which class you took on your request to join)

USA

Upcoming Architecture Events

Here is the current open enrollment schedule:

• Software Architecture Workshop: 

  - Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 8-11, 2012

  - Chicago, IL, July 9-12, 2012

  - Johannesburg, South Africa, July 23-26, 2012

• Enterprise Architecture Workshop: 

  - Chicago, IL, Sept TBA, 2012

• Architectural Leadership Workshop:  

New Books

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Amy Brown and Greg Wilson (eds.), 2011

Our Book Draft

• Software Architecture Action Guide, by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, forthcoming. See Table of Contents to download drafts of chapters. Join our mailing list to receive updates.

• Review Conceptual Architecture draft

Recommended Web Stops

• Ruth Malan's Trace in the Sand journal -- keeping a narrative Trace of Ruth's exploration of the landscape of architects, architecting architecture and providing an early window on Visual Architecting as it advances and evolves.

• Microsoft's Application Architecture Guide

• Gerrit Muller's Gaudi Architecture project site has remarkable depth and coverage of their system architecture papers and training material on the site.

• Grady Booch's on architecture column

Site Update History

• Updated links to case studies and discussions of architectures <7/23/11>
• Updated EA, Strategy and Innovation, Leadership and Communication Books pages <1/7/11>
• Software Architecture Document -- updated <12/22/10>
• Added Core Concepts and Central Concerns resource page <8/5/10>
• Updated the Project Failures page <7/24/10>
• Added Software Architecture Visualization and Code Visualization Resources <7/16/09> Updated <1/9/10>
• Added Architecture Principles: Definitions and links <3/24/09> Updated <8/4/10>
• see Site Update Log for the log of updates made from the the time of the site launch in 1999.

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