13.1. Group One: Enterprise Overview Questions

The questions in this first group are targeted at those who are responsible for managing the overall software development process.

Question 1: Do we need a software fortress architecture?

As much as I believe in the software fortress model, it clearly isn't for every software venture. As I said earlier in this book, the software fortress model is a serious architecture for large-scale enterprise systems. If you're working with three other programmers to build the next-generation word processor, I can't imagine this architecture helping you, and it may well introduce many problems. This architecture is for the enterprise environment. It is for building systems that involve hundreds of programmers ...

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