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The following topics are dealt with: architecture risk management; project risks; software process improvement; architecture leadership and software architecture.
System performance and scalability issues often have their roots in architectural and design choices that are made early in the software life cycle. Because he must communicate with developers, designers, product managers, business stake holders, application domain experts, testers, and requirements engineers, the software architect is uniquely placed to play a leadership role in linking performance...
Risk management and assessment of software project is highly relevant to the social and culture context of the development activities. This paper proposes a risk analysis approach which represents the organizational settings of a project as a social dependency network, and identifies risks originated from broken role dependency relations, unsatisfied goals, unfinished tasks, and unavailable resources...
Most of the research and pedagogical literature in Software Architecture is on technical issues. Recently, however, there has been increasing interest on the importance of non-technical factors such as leadership, communication, inter-personal skills, work habits etc. in architecting. In this paper, we continue this line of research by conducting an empirical study examining the impact of non-technical...
There are many behavioral themes related to leadership and management for architecture practice. This paper deals primarily with leadership in terms of responsibilities for sponsoring improved architectural practice, leveraging from at least two decades of work that has been done in the more general software process improvement community. In addition to a discussion of relevant sponsorship practices...
To help the architect deliver a feasible architecture within given time, cost, and quality constraints, architecture methods such as the ADD, ATAM, QAW, and others have been developed and adopted. The leadership ability of the architect greatly influences the outcome of the application of these methods. We discuss how that leadership ability can be strengthened by leveraging a broad range of risk...
This position paper examines software architecture through the lenses of four organizational perspectives and identifies opportunities for research to improve the positioning and support of the discipline within organizations. It concludes that while software architecture may rest on solid technical foundations, its position in the organization is not as firm.
Project managers must learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of disruptive conflict. Such signs would include poor communication among team members, a lack of openness, a lack of respect, unclear requirements, change between managers and employees, broken boundaries of social norms or groups, different backgrounds (educational, economic, cultural, political, etc.). The worst cases can disintegrate...
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