Incremental Software Architecture: A Method for Saving Failing IT Implementations - Hardcover

Bell, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111911764X ISBN 13: 9781119117643

Publisher: Wiley, 2016

Synopsis

The best-practices solution guide for rescuing broken software systems
Devised to rescue failing IT implementations, Incremental Software Architecture presents an advanced approach for designing durable, flawless, and elastic software systems to enable business growth. This is a practical-solutions manual with complete guidance, abundance of hands-on instruction, and powerful remedies formulated to save software malfunction. Such software architecture failure typically hinders organizational response to commerce trends, growing consumer demands, changes to business strategies, and technological evolution.You'll learn how to avoid developing software systems that are destined to fail and rescue under-performing software implementations that have already deployed to production. These methods and practices will help you circumvent the business losses that cause companies to flounder.

• Mitigate risks of software development projects
• Accurately assess technological feasibility and viability
• Increase return on investments (ROI)
• Provide effective tools to assess technological achievability and viability
• Introduce software design best practices for enterprise architecture efforts
• Identify actual software construction value proposition
• Foster software assets reuse and consolidation
• Accelerate time-to-market

On the software architecture front, fierce competition and volatile commerce markets drive companies to invest heavily in the construction of software systems, which strains IT and business budgets and puts immense pressure on existing network infrastructure. As technology evolves, these increasingly complex computing landscapes become more expensive and difficult to maintain. Incremental Software Architecture shows you how to revamp the architecture to effectively reduce production environment burden, cost, and the chance of failure.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

When large-scale implementations and monolithic application formations fail, the results are devastating to an organization's productivity and bottom line. Reducing this type of risk requires slicing the architectural blueprint into segments in order to design, analyze, verify, and ultimately implement a robust, company-wide system solution in phases. Incremental Software Architecture is the cutting-edge field guide to diagnosing and rebuilding underperforming software systems into models of efficiency and standardization.

Authoritative insight from a leader in the industry paired with plenty of hands-on practice make this groundbreaking resource a must-have for IT and business managers serious about saving their software systems by developing the best and most powerful remedies to the root causes of their software malfunctions. Practical coverage is specifically designed to answer the most common questions facing those in charge of finding and fixing software systems when they negatively impact business performance. It details architecture and design best practices for enterprise architecture efforts and demonstrates how to promote reusing and consolidating existing software assets. To provide at-your-fingertips referencing in the real world, critical material on the incremental software architecture process and its primary objectives is conveniently organized in three sections covering the discovery and analysis, decomposition, and certification of an enterprise end-state. Right away, you'll be able to start:

• Mastering effective tools to assess technological achievability and viability
• Increasing ROI and accelerating time-to-market
• Identifying actual software construction value propositions
• Engineering a system that operates effectively in complex computing environments

There's no end to the fierce competition and volatile commerce markets driving companies to allocate large budgets to constructing software systems, which makes the skill set you gain with this book a long-term asset to your professional toolbox. See for yourself how your value to a company increases with your ability to decrease strain, cost, and the chance of failure with Incremental Software Architecture.

From the Back Cover

THE BEST-PRACTICES SOLUTION GUIDE FOR RESCUING BROKEN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Incremental Software Architecture is the only guide you need to proactively root out and repair failing software systems, while mitigating the impact to a company's system, budget, and future risk.

The wrong software system increases a company's risk of failure so much, it's a question of when, not if, something goes catastrophically wrong. This practitioner's guide gives you all the strategies and methods used by industry leaders for designing custom-fit software systems, along with cautionary advice on how to avoid developing systems destined to fail. Engineer with confidence using the step-by-step approach that enables you to design and test your software system through every sector of the enterprise. You'll turn to this cutting-edge resource again and again for its:

• Proven best practices for developing software systems that reduce business risk
• A revealing collection of case studies illustrating how and why software systems underperform
• Refreshing perspective and tactics for gaining a competitive edge by operating with smaller, more adaptable management and technical groups

If it's broken, fix it right with Incremental Software Architecture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 111911764X
• ISBN 13: 9781119117643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272