Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach
The resources available to build any system are finite. The decisions involved in building any nontrivial system are complex and typically involve many stakeholders, many requirements, and many technical decisions. The stakeholders have an interest in ensuring that good design decisions are made—decisions that meet their technical objectives and their tolerance for risk. These decisions should, as much as possible, maximize the benefit that the system provides and minimize its cost. The Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM) was created to provide some structure to this decision-making process. The CBAM analyzes architectural decisions from the perspectives of cost, benefit, schedule, and risk. While the CBAM does not make decisions for the stakeholders, it does serve as a tool to inform managers and to structure the inquiry so that rational decisions can be made. This report describes the steps of the CBAM and its application to a real-world system.
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Software ArchitectureTechnical Report
CMU/SEI-2002-TR-035
September 2002
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SEI:
Kazman, Rick; Asundi, Jayatirtha; & Klein, Mark. Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach (CMU/SEI-2002-TR-035). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tr035.cfm
IEEE:
R. Kazman, J. Asundi, and M. Klein, "Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-035, 2002. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tr035.cfm
APA:
Kazman, R., Asundi, J., & Klein, M. (2002). Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach (CMU/SEI-2002-TR-035). Retrieved May 24, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tr035.cfm
CHI:
Kazman, Rick, Jayatirtha Asundi, and Mark Klein. Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach (CMU/SEI-2002-TR-035). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tr035.cfm
MLA:
Kazman, R., Asundi, J., & Klein, M. 2002. Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-035). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tr035.cfm
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