A pragmatic view of the system architect

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A pragmatic view of the system architect

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 28 , Issue 7 (July 1985) table of contents

Pages: 708 - 717

Year of Publication: 1985

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

John A. Mills

Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A whole-system designer, fire fighter, mediator, and jack-of-all-trades, the system architect brings unity and continuity to a development project—offsetting the inevitable compartmentalization of modern modular designs.

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	1	Aron. I.D. The Program Developmtvt Process: Part II, the Programming Team. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.. 1983. Establishes the system architect as designer of the framework and externals of a system.
	2	Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softw, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1978
	3	Richard C. Gunther, Management Methodology for Software Product Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1978
	4	Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 1979

CITED BY 3

	Bill Curtis , Herb Krasner , Neil Iscoe, A field study of the software design process for large systems, Communications of the ACM, v.31 n.11, p.1268-1287, Nov. 1988
	Robert L. Ashenhurst, ACM forum, Communications of the ACM, v.28 n.11, p.1117-1120, Nov. 1985
	Philippe Kruchten , Henk Obbink , Judith Stafford, The Past, Present, and Future for Software Architecture, IEEE Software, v.23 n.2, p.22-30, March 2006

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.1 Project and People Management
Subjects: Systems analysis and design
K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION

General Terms:
Design, Management

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As one would expect from the title, “no attempt is made in this paper to be theoretical.” Instead, a view of the role of the system architect, “based on the author's own experience as a system architect on three separate projec more...

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