Other Resources

• Conway's Law Revisited: Successfully Aligning Enterprise Architecture, (registration required) InformIT.Article Online:
• Organizational Savvy: The Missing Piece in Software Architecture Education, (registration required) InformIT. An earlier version of this article appeared in the SPC E-ssentials Newsletter.
• Patterns: An Antidote for "Best" Practices Gone Bad, SPC E-ssentials Newsletter. It features a pattern called ROTATION that appears in the book.
• Patterns for Managing the Rhythm of E-Commerce, Cutter IT Journal The article is based on rhythm chapter from the book. It is also available in is online in PDF format.

Related Conference Presentations and Seminars

• Agile Programming and the CMM: Anti-Matter and Matter or Reconcilable Differences, Software Technology Conference
• Rhythm of Software Architecture, SDWest
• Organizational Patterns for Software Architecture, Software Architecture 2002
• David Kane presented a seminar entitled Software Architecture and the Organization: Principles and Patterns for Success in Vancouver, British Columbia. The seminar was sponsored by the Software Productivity Center web site. The next offering of the seminar has not been scheduled, but if you would like to see it offered in your neighborhood, contact the folks at the Software Productivity Center and let them know.

Book Content Online

• Dana Bredemeyer's site for software architecture is featuring the preface, and the rhythm chapter from the book.
• Amazon has made 44 pages from the book available online for your consideration, including the table of contents and index.

References to the Book

• Ross Buhrdorf and Dale Churchett mention the VRAPS model in their article The Salion Development Approach: Post Iteration Inspections for Refactoring (PIIR) in The Rational Edge newsletter. In particular, they have a good discussion on the importance of vision.

Enterprise Architecture Community

IEEE Architecture Working Group

ProxySource

Resources for Software Architects from the Bredemeyer Consulting Group

Software Architecture and the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Initiative from the Software Engineering Institute

STARS Software Architecture Papers

University of California at Irvine Software Architecture Research

University of Colorado Software Engineering Research Lab

University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering

Worldwide Institute of Software Architects