Architecture Board: Extension to Architecture Management Overview paper on EuroPLoP'17

Abstract

With multiple parallel running software development initiatives and products, the overview of what is going on has to be kept in sight to derive suitable architectural and technical decisions. In an environment without a proper decision-making process in several development teams, or without a clear definition of roles and responsibilities a centralized architecture board makes no sense. There is need of dedicated maturity steps to traverse through to reach the goal of a distributed realization environment with as few as possible bottlenecks due to mutual discussions with a centralized responsibility to gather knowledge about on goings even considering existing technical debts. This paper is worth considered by CTOs, chief or enterprise architects within greater software development organizations.