The Art of Systems Architecting, 3/e (Hardcover)

If engineering is the art and science of technical problem solving, systems architecting happens when you don’t yet know what the problem is. The third edition of a highly respected bestseller, The Art of Systems Architecting provides in-depth coverage of the least understood part of systems design: moving from a vague concept and limited resources to a satisfactory and feasible system concept and an executable program. The book provides a practical, heuristic approach to the "art" of systems architecting. It provides methods for embracing, and then taming, the growing complexity of modern systems.

New in the Third Edition:

• Five major case studies illustrating successful and unsuccessful practices
• Information on architecture frameworks as standards for architecture descriptions
• New methods for integrating business strategy and architecture and the role of architecture as the technical embodiment of strategy
• Integration of process guidance for organizing and managing architecture projects
• Updates to the rapidly changing fields of software and systems-of-systems architecture
• Organization of heuristics around a simple and practical process model

 A Practical Heuristic Approach to the Art of Systems Architecting

Extensively rewritten to reflect the latest developments, the text explains how to create a system from scratch, presenting invention/design rules together with clear explanations of how to use them. The author supplies practical guidelines for avoiding common systematic failures while implementing new mandates. He uses a heuristics-based approach that provides an organized attack on very ill-structured engineering problems. Examining architecture as more than a set of diagrams and documents, but as a set of decisions that either drive a system to success or doom it to failure, the book provide methods for integrating business strategy with technical architectural decision making.

如果工程是技術問題解決的藝術和科學，系統架構則是在你還不知道問題是什麼時發生的。這本深受推崇的暢銷書的第三版，《系統架構的藝術》，深入探討了系統設計中最不被理解的部分：從模糊的概念和有限的資源轉變為令人滿意和可行的系統概念和可執行的程式。本書提供了一種實用的、啟發式的系統架構方法。它提供了應對現代系統日益複雜性的方法。

第三版的新內容包括：
- 五個主要案例研究，展示成功和失敗的做法
- 關於架構框架作為架構描述的標準的資訊
- 整合業務策略和架構以及架構作為策略技術體現的角色的新方法
- 整合組織和管理架構項目的流程指導更新
- 軟體和系統架構領域的快速變化的更新
- 將啟發式組織在一個簡單實用的流程模型周圍

這本書以最新的發展為基礎進行了廣泛的重寫，解釋了如何從零開始創建一個系統，並提供了明確的解釋如何使用發明/設計規則。作者提供了實用的指南，以避免在實施新命令時出現常見的系統性失敗。他使用了一種基於啟發式的方法，對非常不結構化的工程問題進行有組織的攻擊。本書將架構視為不僅僅是一組圖表和文件，而是一組決策，這些決策要麼將系統帶向成功，要麼將其注定失敗，並提供了將業務策略與技術架構決策相整合的方法。