About Dana Bredemeyer

Software Architecture Background

I have over 25 years experience architecting, designing and developing software systems, including 16 years with Hewlett-Packard. Ten years ago this year, I founded Bredemeyer Consulting to focus on architecture consulting and training. Several thousand architects, senior engineers and managers have taken my architecture workshops. I have provided architecture consulting to architects, architecture teams and their management at the project, organization and business unit levels, and have helped teams develop software, firmware and system architectures for products, product families and information systems. I am co-authoring a book on software architecture with Ruth Malan.

Software Architecture Action Guide Book Draft

Table of Contents

Part I: Software Architecture and the Visual Architecting Process

Chapter 1. Software Architecture: Central Concerns, Key Decisions

Chapter 2. The Visual Architecting Process: Good, Right and Successful

Chapter 3. Initiate and Gain Commitment: Getting Started

Chapter 4. Meta-Architecture: Getting Strategic

Chapter 5. Conceptual Architecture: Getting the Big Chunks Right

Chapter 6. Logical Architecture: Getting Precise, Making Actionable

Chapter 7. Execution Architecture: Getting Physical

Chapter 8. Architecture Guidelines and Policies: Getting Specific

Chapter 9. Architecture Deployment: Getting Real

Part II: Software Architecture Action Guides

Here are some examples of what we call Action Guides:

• Meta-Architecture Specification: Software Architecture Principles Template (Principles_Template.pdf, 24kb)
• Meta-Architecture Requirements: Stakeholder Profile Action Guide (Stakeholder_Profile.pdf, 222kb)
• Conceptual Architecture Requirements: Use Case Template (Use_Case_Template.pdf, 25kb)
• Logical Architecture Specification: Interface Specification Template (Interface_Template.pdf, 24kb)

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