Software Architect Bootcamp

8.5. Exercises

Exercise 8.1

Work with a peer or manager who is very familiar with the organizational systems. Identify the focus of the study, such as: "We want to find a way to exchange accounting information between our systems for monthly and yearly reporting" or "We want our customer service representatives to access information and post transactions across as many lines of business as possible." Then make a list of the systems, standards, prototypes, and products you already know about that are relevant to the problem. Check the Internet, too. Sort this list in terms of the importance of each system for the business and problem resolution. You are done; you have a plan for architecture mining. The next steps would be to track these resources ...