NDLI: Why can't they create architecture models like "Developer X"? An experience report

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Fairbanks, G.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Fairbanks, G.)
Abstract	A large financial company, struggling with legacy systems that did not interoperate, performed a pilot project to teach software architecture to an enthusiastic application development team. Experienced mentors, including the author, worked with the application team for seven months to complete their engineering goal successfully. However, the mentors were unsuccessful in their attempt to train any of the six members of the application team to create architecture models on their own, though they were able to create them collaboratively with the mentors. This surprising result is due to the application team's strong preference for concrete artifacts over abstract ones. Even more surprising, an application developer from a different project, "Developer X", read the architecture modeling documentation on an internal website and, without mentoring, created architecture models within a few days. In light of this failure to teach software architecture, two short-term strategies are suggested for the use of software architecture in companies.
Starting Page	548
Ending Page	552
File Size	217376
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	076951877X
ISSN	02705257
DOI	10.1109/ICSE.2003.1201235
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-05-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer architecture Application software Software architecture Employee welfare Documentation Computer science Collaborative work Concrete Programming Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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