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

Announcements

Enterprise Architecture

EA Soapbox

EA Links

Enterprise-Wide IT Architecture (EWITA.com)

Enterprise Architecture Services

Enterprise Architecture Workshop (4-day)

- Chicago, IL, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2009

Architecture Training

Software Architecture Class

- Chicago, IL April 6-9, 2009

What it Takes to be a Great Architect Class
 

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

In November 2008, Bredemeyer Consulting turned TEN! Your goodwill towards us has touched us and inspired us, and we are deeply grateful for all your support and encouragement over the years. We sincerely appreciate your recommendations which have brought several thousand architects to our workshops over these 10 years, and 10's of thousands of visitors to this website every month. We look forward with great anticipation to the next ten years of serving the architecture community, because you make this such an exciting field to work in! Thank you!

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! 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. The draft is available at http://www.bredemeyer.com/pdf_files/ActionGuides/ConceptualArchitectureActionGuide.PDF. See Table of Contents to download drafts of chapters. Join our mailing list to receive updates.

Global

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

Architect Discussion Forum: Join the VAP Google Group

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).

Architect Job Postings (See More Detail)

• Jr. EA Architect, Defense Industry, Arlington, VA <added 2/18/09>
• Embedded Systems Architect, North Carolina <added 1/28/09>

• Sr. IT Architect, Southern California Edison, Irwindale, CA <added 1/16/09>

This web site attracts some 1500 visitors per day, so if you are looking to hire an architect, chances are good that the person you are looking for is stopping by our site from time to time! Send us your architect job announcements and we'll add them to this page. Please email your request and text for the architect job posting to us, and we will add it to the Architect Job Opportunities page.

USA

Upcoming Architecture Training Events

Here is the current open enrollment schedule:

• Software Architecture Workshop: 
  - Chicago, IL April 6-9, 2009
  - The Netherlands, May 5-8, 2009. Registration information available on request. 
  - Johannesburg, South Africa, May 26-29, 2009. Enroll by April 30th for the early enrollment discount!

• Enterprise Architecture Workshop: 

  - Indianapolis, IN, November 11-14, 2008

  - Chicago, IL, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2009

Asia-Pacific

• The New Zealand chapter of WWISA meets every month in Wellington at Equinox House.
   

Forthcoming Books

• 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.

• Software Architecture Handbook, by Grady Booch, online (you have to register to get access). There is an extensive classification of patterns, though the systems architecture case study section is still in the writing pipe. Excellent piece on forces in software architecture.

• Practical Software Architecture For the Enterprise: Software Architect's Toolbox is a draft of a book by Boris Monin, published at http://www.safe-house.org/SH-Book/safe-house-book.htm

Recommended Web Stops

• Microsoft's Application Architecture Guide

• Gerrit Muller's Gaudi Architecture project site has remarkable depth and coverage of their system architecture training material on the site http://www.gaudisite.nl

• Ruth Malan's architects/architecting/architecture notes

Site Update History

• Added Architecture Principles: Definitions and links <3/24/09>
• see Site Update Log for the log of updates made from the the time of the site launch in 1999.

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