Architectural Decision

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In Part 1 of this story, we went from architectural decisions to more general software design decisions. In this Part 2, we will move on to strategy decisions and then, becoming even more exploratory, any (or arbitrary) decisions. Strategic Decisions Let’s investigate cloud strategy as an example domain. Gregor Hohpe, of “Enterprise…

If architectural decision records are so useful to capture software design rationale, why not extend their scope? This is Part 1 of a two-part story; Part 2 goes from software design decision to strategic ones and any decision. Architectural Significance and Decision Making Criteria In “Architectural Decisions — The Making Of”, I motivated why Architectural Decision…

A light template for architectural decision capturing — Architectural Decisions (ADs) answer “why?” questions about design and justify why an option is chosen. As a consulting IT architect at IBM, I followed their ARC-100 template for AD capturing on my projects, usually trimmed down quite a bit (following the first law of method adoption: “if in doubt, leave…