Luke Hohmann borrows from his extensive experience managing successful enterprise software projects to provide practical wisdom on creating and sustaining winning software solutions. This book teaches students how to build a software architecture that aligns with a customer's overall business goals and helps students grasp the business ramifications of their decisions. These are two important aspects for any student to take away from a software engineering course as these skills will be vitally important when they enter the workforce.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Martin Fowler.
Foreword by Guy Kawasaki.
Preface.
1. Software Architecture.
2. Product Development Primer.
3. The Difference between Marketecture and Tarchitecture.
4. Business and License Model Symbiosis.
5. Technology In-Licensing.
6. Portability.
7. Deployment Architecture.
8. Integration and Extension.
9. Brand and Brand Elements.
10. Usability.
11. Installation.
12. Upgrade.
13. Configuration.
14. Logs.
15. Release Management.
16. Security.
Appendix A. Release Checklist.
Appendix B. A Pattern Language for Strategic Product Management.
References.
Bibliography.
About the Author.