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BAPO imbalance

All parts of BAPO[1]BAPO model explains how the business, architecture, process and organization should play with each other in a SW organization. I like it personally, as it helps me explain several things such as … Continue reading have a home turf of problems/aspects/challenges it can address efficiently. For instance, maintainability is best addressed in the architecture, rather than some complex maintenance processes or special teams designated in the organization. In most cases, modifiability is best first addressed in the business, where only the essential modifiability is prioritized and rest is eliminated to save on complexity. Knowhow management and regulations etc. are mostly best addressed in the organization and process areas. While some technical risks are best addressed in the architecture, I was surprised to hear of a case where the business people covered against a risk by just arranging an insurance, thereby relieving the architecture of the complexity. Continue reading BAPO imbalance

Footnotes

Footnotes
1 BAPO model explains how the business, architecture, process and organization should play with each other in a SW organization. I like it personally, as it helps me explain several things such as Conway’s Law being an inverse interaction of architecture and organization. Check out the following document for details, or just Google it: Obbink, H., Müller, J., America, P., van Ommering, R., Muller, G., van der Sterren, W., & Wijnstra, J. G. (2000, August). COPA: A component-oriented platform architecting method for families of software-intensive electronic products. In Tutorial for the First Software Product Line Conference, Denver, Colorado.

The vicious cycle of delay

Hi there,

Some of you have probably noticed that there was a long delay in the posts. The reason was, as I indicated before, our move as a family to Switzerland. The move still tends to take most of my available time (ramping myself up in the new role as well as chores such as registration, insurance, finding daycare…), so I still cannot promise a regular rhythm of posts. In the meantime, I’d like to convey two observations about my posting rhythm. Continue reading The vicious cycle of delay