Presents a successful strategy for the management of complexity, change and uncertainty in large software systems ("Managed Evolution")
Provides direct guidance via principle-based architecting for the working architect
Offers a deep insight into the software evolution

Autorentext

Frank J. Furrer graduated as an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland and earned his Ph.D. from the same institution. Afterward, he was active in the industry as an entrepreneur, as an architect, and as a management consultant for Information Technology and IT Systems Architectures. Since 2013, he teaches as an honorary professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (Faculty for Computer Science). This book represents the distilled outcomes of his long professional career as a software-systems architect, consultant, author, and educator.

Inhalt
Sofware Everywhere.- Force of Entropy.- Three Devils of Systems Engineering.- Future-Proof Software-Systems.- Evolution Strategies.- Architecture.- Principle-Based Architecting.- Context for Managed Evolution.- The Future.- Special Topics.- Principles for Business Value.- Architecture Principles for Changeability.- Architecture Principles for Resilience.- Architecture Principles for Dependability