SEI Webinar Series: How to Effectively Evaluate Software Architecture and Identify Risks

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will present a free webinar on Thursday, September 10 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT. Here is the abstract:

A tool to support evaluating an architecture for usability

At SATURN 2009 Pia Stoll from ABB described the use of a tool to support evaluating a software architecture for certain aspects of usability. The abstract of her talk is here. In the ABB experience, the architect used the tool for 6 hours and estimated it saved him 5 weeks of effort.

A version of this tool is now available for dowload. You can find it at here.

– Len Bass, SEI

Virtual panel on documentation

InfoQ has just published a virtual panel on documentation. The panelists were myself, Paulo Merson, Grady Booch and Eoin Woods.

Read it here.

- Len Bass

Agile and Architecture

Agile Development originated for use by small cross-functional teams, co-located with a dedicated customer representative. In this context, the strategies of emergent design, refactoring and the use of tacit knowledge were sufficient to deal with most of the technical challenges faced by the teams. Architectural practices were rarely discussed.