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Title: The Software Architect's Profession: An Introduction by Marc Sewell, Laura Sewell ISBN: 0-13-060796-7 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 19 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must Read for Software Architects
Comment: As other reviewers have pointed out, there is very little reference to software in this book. But as the Sewell's point out, most of the actual software technology is in the province of the builders, and/ or the experience base that the architect brings to their engagement. It doesn't belong in this book.
If you're a practicing software architect, as we are, I think you'll find this book puts into context a great deal of what occurs on your projects. While others, such as John Zachman also use this analogy, they use it to different ends. Zachman, for instance uses it as a framework to build successively more detailed models of the systems to be built.
This is a book is advocacy for Software Architecture as a Profession
Rating: 2
Summary: An Intoduction to the Building Architect's Profession.
Comment: The author laments the lack of a well defined practice of Software Architecture. The book starts out citing two failed software projects which could have used a software architect.
After that it delves into the history of architecture from ancient times to day. An entire chapter is devoted to how the building architect I.M. Pei sucessfully rearchitected the Louvre in Paris in the face of many challenges. So what's that got to do with software architects? While the authors claim that there are parallels between s/w architects and architects of the traditional kind they fail to establish a clear link.
An informative and brief read about architects (not the s/w kind) and their profession. If you are looking to be a s/w architect look elsewhere.
Rating: 1
Summary: Good subject - poor execution
Comment: This book starts out well, but leads nowhere. By the end of the book, I felt that the authors had no business writing about software architecture because they seemed to have little insight into software development. When they make statements like "great design is rarely mentioned in the software field" (I've paraphrased) I can't help but wonder where they have been for the past 30 years. I'm in the industry and I hear and participate in those discussions frequently. There are of course projects, where the design (and architecture) are not properly done, but it is common knowledge that this a bad idea.
My determination of a good software book is whether or not, I would want the authors working on a project with me. By the end of this book, I felt like I would not want these two on any project I was leading. They seem too naive, and too eager to embrace over-simplifications of complex topics.
I'll give them one star for at least trying to define the role of software architect and for taking on a complex subject.
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Title: Software Architecture: Organizational Principles and Patterns by David M. Dikel, David Kane, James R. Wilson ISBN: 0130290327 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 28 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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Title: Software Architect Bootcamp by Raphael Malveau, Raphael C. Malveau, Thomas Mowbray ISBN: 0130274070 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 18 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford ISBN: 0201703726 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $64.99 |
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Title: Applied Software Architecture by Christine Hofmeister, Robert Nord, Dilip Soni ISBN: 0201325713 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture--Practice and Promise by Anneke Kleppe, Jos Warmer, Wim Bast ISBN: 032119442X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 25 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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