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Accession Number
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ADA566734
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Title
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Unstructured Architectures Considered Harmful.
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Publication Date
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Oct 2012
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Media Count
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7p
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Personal Author
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K. B. Bush
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Abstract
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The use of architectures to document and explore requirements during the systems engineering process is a valuable technique. Mature enterprise and system architectures can facilitate requirement discovery, analysis, and traceability in an effective and scalable manner. This role for architectures is important. However, an overemphasis of the requirements-architecture relationship risks an inadvertent devaluation of high-level design quality. Focusing on requirement capture may cause an architect to miss opportunities to make strategic engineering trade-off decisions, thereby creating an absence of design structure. This paper discusses design structure and its relationship with system complexity and warns of the pitfalls presented by unstructured architectures.
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Keywords
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Complexity
Control theory
Design structure
Deterministic behavior
Dodaf(Department of defense architecture framework)
Enterprise architecture
Predictability
Requirements
Self organizing systems
Stochastic processes
Structured design
System design
Systems architecture
Systems engineering
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Source Agency
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Non Paid ADAS
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NTIS Subject Category
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62D - Information Processing Standards
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Corporate Author
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Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, North Charleston, SC.
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Document Type
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Technical report
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Title Note
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Technical rept.
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NTIS Issue Number
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1307
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Contract Number
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N/A
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