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Architecture
Builiging stategy into design
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Architecture is omnipresent and natural. Every child applies it,
and it will keep doing so as a grown-up. Both Salvador Dali and
Vincent van Gogh were guided by functional and constructional
principles. Examples of functional principles for them were to
shock or to please. Examples of constructional principles were to
use oil color or water color. Design principles are the operational
shape of architecture. Conceptually, it is normative restriction of
design freedom. The rationale for architecture is simply that our
design freedom is always too large. The question then is: how are
you going to use this freedom? Through the whole history of
mankind, people have answered the question in much the same way;
they use design freedom for expressing their individual or
collective vision.
In this book, architecture is introduced and elaborated for the
area of business and ICT (information and communication
technology). Fortunately, there is a lot of talk about architecture
in this area. Unfortunately, the original notion of architecture
has degenerated into something like a blueprint or a global design.
This degeneration process must be stopped, the sooner the better.
Certainly, there is also a need for global understanding of complex
systems, for abstraction from irrelevant details. However, for this
goal we have the notion of system ontology. It provides the
understanding of a system in a coherent, consistent, complete and
concise way, fully abstracted from all implementation aspects.
The aim of the book is to make the notion of architecture crisp and
clear and to show how one can bene. t from it in (re) designing and
(re) engineering systems in the area of business and ICT, ranging
from infrastructural networks to enterprises. Having a corporate
strategy is good but having the means to make this strategy
operational is better. That is what architecture can achieve: to
build strategy into design.
This book is the final report of the xAF (Extensible Architecture
Frameworks) working group of the NAF (Netherlands Architecture
Forum).
About the author
Jan Dietz is professor in Information Systems Design at
Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). He is the
spiritual father of DEMO (Design & Engineering Methodology for
Organizations), co-founder and chairman of the DEMO Center of
Expertise (www.demo.nl), member of the board of the NAF and
chairman of the NAF working group xAF (www.xaf.nl).
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Bestelcode
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Uitlevering
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Nurcode
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