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Architecture centric project management

Software Architecture centric project management is an interesting concept. Here project management is done with the focus on the architecture. Often teams have this question why they should do it this way and why should project managers focus on this aspect. I am not going to explain all this in a simple Blog but probably later in an article. But my question is would you build a dog house without a blueprint. Most likely yes, but would you build your house without a blueprint? Never, well that is the answer for a need for architecture centric approach to project management. Better estimations are done as well as clearly defined iterations are created because the architectural model would contain functional as well as the non functional requirements. Using this the quality of the software created can be evaluated as well as the variations and issues in developing the software is easily predictable. Software projects that do not follow this mechanism is too dependent on the implementation details, here I mean the code and the database. These results in uneven expectations created as well as unpredictable results leaving the success of the project to few individuals than a well defined process.

posted by Joseph Poozhikunnel @ 9:38 AM