Visual Architecting Process™
- Init/Commit
- Meta-architecture
- Conceptual Architecture
- Logical Architecture
- Execution Architecture
- Architecture Deployment
 

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by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, Bredemeyer Consulting, January 2006

The technical core (Requirements, Specification and Validation) of Visual Architecting Process™ is organized around the Architecture Decision Model. Click on areas on the two diagrams below to explore the process and associated Architecture Action Guides™. This part of the site is a work-in-progress, so not all areas are active yet. The Visual Architecting Process has a long history and is documented in our workshops, so it is this way of presenting it (free) on this web site that is "in progress."

Visual Architecting Process Model

• Initiate and Gain Commitment

• Technical core iterates through Requirements, Specification and Validation, where decisions are organized by the Architecture Decision Model below

• Architecture Deployment

Architecture Decision Model

• Meta-Architecture

• Conceptual Architecture

• Logical Architecture

• Execution Architecture

• Architecture Guidelines,  Policies and Standards

• The Visual Architecting Process™ is documented in the Software Architecture Action Guide book by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer. See Table of Contents to download drafts of chapters. Join our mailing list to receive updates.

• The Software Architecture Workshop provides coaching through the Visual Architecting Process. Teams work together to create a draft architecture, gaining experience with critical phases of the process. We weave together stories shared by instructor and participants with practice with the techniques to create an experience that illuminates the process and motivates the activities.

• NEW! Join the VAP Google Group

• For fun, a parody of VAP

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We invite you to contribute templates and models that you find useful in architecting. If your contribution is selected for publication in the book, or on this web site, your name will appear in the acknowledgments.   

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