Architecting in Networked Organizations

Abstract

The context of software architecting increasingly reflects webs of IT companies pooling resources together for software development. What results is a networked organization, populated by heterogeneous development communities connected via internet. How does this scenario change the process of software architecting? Pivoting around this research question, this paper presents architecture concerns relevant in such networked development scenarios. Supporting these concerns is critical to understand the impact of architecture on organizational change and vice versa. To this aim, we introduce a viewpoint, its supporting tool and evaluate both through a case-study.