Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

Luke Hohmann, Addison-Wesley Professional

ISBN:0201775948, Edition: , 2003-02-09

Price: $49.99

• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Advance praise for 'Beyond Software Architecture'
• The Addison-Wesley Signature Series
• Foreword by Martin Fowler
• Foreword by Guy Kawasaki
• Preface
  • Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Software Architecture
  • Defining Software Architecture
  • Alternative Thoughts on Software Architecture
  • Why Software Architecture Matters
  • Creating an Architecture
  • Patterns and Architecture
  • Architectural Evolution and Maturation: Features versus Capabilities
  • Architectural Care and Feeding
  • Principles First, Second, and Third
  • Creating Architectural Understanding
  • The Team
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 2. Product Development Primer
  • What Is Product Management?
  • Why Product Management Matters
  • Product Development Processes: Creating Release 1.0
  • It Isn't Like That
  • The Business Plan
  • Product Development Processes: Creating Release n.n.n
  • Augmenting the Product Development Process
  • Crucial Product Management Concepts
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 3. The Difference between Marketecture and Tarchitecture
  • Who Is Responsible for What?
  • Early Forces in Solution Development
  • Creating Results in the Short Run while Working in the Long Run
  • Projecting the Future
  • Harnessing Feedback
  • Generating Clarity
  • Working in Unison
  • Context Diagrams and Target Products
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 4. Business and License Model Symbiosis
  • Common Software Business Models
  • Rights Associated with Business Models
  • Tarchitectural Support for the Business Model
  • Enforcing Licensing Models
  • Market Maturity Influences on the Business Model
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 5. Technology In-Licensing
  • Licensing Risks/Rewards
  • Contracts—Where the Action Is
  • When Business Models Collide, Negotiations Ensue
  • Honoring License Agreements
  • Managing In-Licensed Technology
  • Open Source Licensing
  • License Fees
  • Licensing Economics
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 6. Portability
  • The Perceived Advantages of Portability
  • The Business Case for Portability
  • Creating Portable Applications
  • The Matrix of 'Pain'
  • Beware the Promises You Make
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 7. Deployment Architecture
  • Deployment Choices
  • Customer Influences on Deployment Architectures
  • Corporate Influences on Deployment Architecture
  • Choosing a Software Deployment Architecture
  • Deployment Architectures and the Distribution of Work
  • The Information Appliance
  • Deployment Choice Influences on Software Architecture
  • The Future of Consumer Software
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 8. Integration and Extension
  • Customer Control—The Driving Force
  • Layered Business Architectures: Logical Structures
  • Creating Layered Business Architectures
  • Integration and Extension at the Business Logic Layers
  • Integration and Extension of Persistent Data
  • Business Ramifications
  • Managing APIs over Multiple Releases
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 9. Brand and Brand Elements
  • Brand Elements
  • Managing In-License Brands
  • Brand Element Customizations
  • Changing Brand Elements
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 10. Usability
  • Usability Is about Money
  • Mental Models, Metaphors, and Usability
  • Tarchitectural Influences on User Interface Design
  • The Need for Speed
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 11. Installation
  • The Out of Box Experience
  • Ouch! That Might Hurt
  • Installation and Architecture
  • How to Install
  • Finishing Touches
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 12. Upgrade
  • Like Installation, Only Worse
  • Making Upgrades Less Painful
  • Market Maturity and Upgrades
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 13. Configuration
  • Configurability—An Element of Usability
  • The System Context
  • Initialization versus Execution
  • Setting the Value
  • Setting the Right Value
  • Configuration Parameter Heuristics
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• Chapter 14. Logs
  • I Want to Know What's Happening
  • Not Just the Facts
  • Log Format and Management
  • Postprocessing Log Data
  • Logging Services
  • Chapter Summary
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• Chapter 15. Release Management
  • Yes, You Really Need This
  • Establishing a Baseline
  • Release Management
  • Release Identification
  • SKUs and Serial Numbers
  • Release Management Influences on Tarchitecture
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• Chapter 16. Security
  • Viruses, Hackers, and Pirates
  • Digital Identity Management
  • Transaction Security
  • Software Security
  • Information Security
  • Secret Algorithms or Secret Keys?
  • Back Doors
  • Security and Marketecture
  • Chapter Summary
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• Appendix A. Release Checklist
  • Tracking Information
  • Engineering/Development
  • Quality Assurance
  • Technical Publications
  • Core Product Management
  • Knowledge Transfer—Professional Services
  • Knowledge Transfer—Sales and the Channel
  • Knowledge Transfer—Technical Support
  • Release Activities
• Appendix B. A Pattern Language for Strategic Product Management
  • Applying The Patterns
  • Capturing and Sharing the Result
  • Market Map
  • Market Events/Market Rhythms
  • Feature/Benefit Map
  • The Tarchitecture Roadmap
• References
• Bibliography
• Software Development—People and Project Management
• Software Development—Configuration Management
• Software Development—Code and Selected Technologies
• Product Management / Marketing
• Business Classics
• Software Architecture
• About Luke Hohmann
• Index
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