5.3.1 Object-Oriented Architectural Modeling: Part 1

by Scott W. Ambler, September 1999

There are 10 ways you can model your development projects.

These days it seems like everything is architecture-centric or architecture-driven, but what does that really mean? Why is architecture important to you? How does architectural modeling fit into your overall development process? It s likely that your organization has been struggling with these questions for years, and I hope I can shed some light on how architectural modeling works in the real world. Although this column is targeted at organizations using object or component technology to develop systems, the material is high-level enough to work in any environment your development deliverables may change, but the fundamentals remain the same.

I ll start with the basics of the modeling process, captured in the Model process pattern depicted in Figure 5.3. It is based on David Taylor s T technique, in which enterprise and organizational modeling efforts, forming the top bar of the T, drive detailed and project modeling efforts, each of...