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The Architect

2004 \| 3	Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the Rational Unified Process
2004 \| 2	The Recovery of Runtime Architectures
2004 \| 1	Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the ATAM and the CBAM
4Q03	Integrating Analysis and Design Methods for the Software Life Cycle
3Q03	Rethinking the Software Life Cycle
2Q03	Introducing Predictable Assembly from Certifiable Components
1Q03	Defining the Terms Architecture, Design, and Implementation
4Q02	Enterprise Integration
3Q02	The Evolution of Quality Attribute Workshops as an Architecture-Evaluation Technique
2Q02	Aligning Business Models, Business Architectures, and IT Architectures
1Q02	Architectures for Adaptive Mobile Systems
3Q01	Economic Modeling of Software Architectures
2Q01	Using Quality Attribute Workshops to Evaluate Early-Stage Architecture Design Decisions
1Q01	Architecture Mechanisms
07/00	Attribute-Based Architectural Styles
03/00	Quality Attribute Workshops
03/00	An Architectural Approach to Software Cost Modeling
12/99	Software Architecture Evaluation in the DoD Systems Acquisition Context
09/99	The Perils and Joys of Reconstructing Architectures
06/99	Using Scenarios in Architecture Evaluations
03/99	Analyzing Quality Attributes
12/98	Representing Software Architecture
09/98	Are Software Architects Like Building Architects?

The Business Edge
09/99	Eight Key Factors for Successful Technology Collaboration
06/99	Software Strategy for Technology Collaboration

CMMI in Focus
2004 \| 3	CMMI—V1.2 and Beyond
2004 \| 2	Choosing a Supplier: Due Diligence and CMMI Levels
2004 \| 1	Myths about SCAMPI Appraisals
4Q03	CMMI—Continuously Improving!
3Q03	Using CMMI: How Is it Progressing?
2Q03	Using CMMI Appraisals in Acquisition—a Primer
1Q03	Cruisin' the CMMI Web Site
4Q02	Messages from the Field
3Q02	CMMI and Process Improvement Themes

Eye on Integration (formerly The COTS Spot)
2004 \| 3	Emergent Issues in Interoperability
2004 \| 2	Guiding Principles for Interoperability
2004 \| 1	ISIS and the Goal of Interoperability
3Q03	Changing Focus
2Q03	CMMI and BSCC
1Q03	Assumption Management
4Q02	Modernizing Legacy Systems
3Q02	Building Systems from Commercial Components Using EPIC
2Q02	Risk/Misfit Redux
1Q02	Building Systems from Commercial Components: Classroom Experiences
4Q01	Automating Design Search
3Q01	Design and Search
2Q01	Building Systems from Commercial Components Using Model Problems
1Q01	Requirements and COTS-Based Systems: A Thorny Question Indeed
07/00	Wheels Within Wheels: Model Problems in Practice
03/00	Just-in-Time Component Competence
03/00	COTS and Risk: Some Thoughts on How They Connect
12/99	The Elusive Search for Categories
09/99	Who's in Charge Here?
06/99	Requirements and COTS-Based Systems: A Thorny Question Indeed
03/99	COTS Product Evaluation and System Design
12/98	COTS Evaluation in the Real World
09/98	Evaluation of COTS Products: Some Thoughts on the Process

Net Effects
12/99	NCC in Y2K
09/99	The Net Effects of Product Lines
06/99	The Net Effects of MP3
03/99	An Example of Erratic Effort Estimation
12/98	Distance Learning Grows by Degrees
09/98	Life in the Digital Subscriber Lane
06/98	The Era of Net-Centric Computing

Security Matters
2004 \| 3	Install and Use Those Anti-Virus Programs
2004 \| 2	The Goal of Computer Security or What's Yours is Yours Until You Say Otherwise!
2004 \| 1	What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack and What Can I Do About It?
4Q03	There IS an Intruder in My Computer—What Now?
3Q03	Use Care When Reading Email with Attachments
2Q03	Use Care When Downloading and Installing Programs
1Q03	Can You Prove It?
4Q02	Installing and Using a Firewall Program
3Q02	File Cabinets and Pig Latin: Guards for Information Assets
2Q02	Is There an Intruder in My Computer?
1Q02	The Internet—Friend or Foe?
4Q01	Attack Scenarios: How to Get There from Here
3Q01	Everyone's a System Administrator
2Q01	CERT® System and Network Security Practices
1Q01	How the FBI Investigates Computer Crime
07/00	Cybersleuthing: Means, Motive, and Opportunity
03/00	Removing Roadblocks to Cyber Defense
03/00	Survivability Blends Computer Security With Business Risk Management
12/99	Protecting Critical Systems in Unbounded Networks
09/99	From Y2K to Security Improvement: A Critical Transition
06/99	Were You Ready for the Melissa Virus?
03/99	Avoiding the Trial-by-Fire Approach to Security Incidents
12/98	What Messages Are You Sending to Vendors?
09/98	Security Matters—Doesn't It?

Software Product Lines
2004 \| 3	Marathon Man
2004 \| 2	Tiptoe Carefully or Dive Right In?
2004 \| 1	"Lunching" and Institutionalizing
4Q03	It Takes Two
3Q03	The Man with the Plan
2Q03	What's the Difference Between Product Line Scope and Product Line Requirements?
1Q03	Components As Products
4Q02	E Pluribus Unum
3Q02	Product Lines Are Everywhere

Watts New
2004 \| 3	The Quality Attitude
2004 \| 2	Security Changes Everything
2004 \| 1	Defective Software Works
4Q03	Some Programming Principles: People
3Q03	Some Programming Principles: Projects
2Q03	Some Programming Principles: Products
1Q03	Some Programming Principles: Requirements
4Q02	Learning from Hardware: Design and Quality
3Q02	Learning from Hardware: Planning
2Q02	Surviving Failure
1Q02	The Future of Software Engineering: V
4Q01	The Future of Software Engineering: IV
3Q01	The Future of Software Engineering: III
2Q01	The Future of Software Engineering: II
1Q01	The Future of Software Engineering: I
07/ 00	Moving the Goal Posts
03/00	Making the Tactical Case for Process Improvement
03/00	Justifying a Process Improvement Proposal
12/99	Making the Strategic Case for Process Improvement
09/99	Getting Management Support for a Process Improvement
06/99	Doing Disciplined Work
03/99	Bugs or Defects?
12/98	Making Team Plans
09/98	Your Date or Mine?
06/98	Why Does Software Work Take So Long?

Credits	Editor in Chief: Janet Rex	Production: Barbara White	Editorial Staff: Hollen Barmer Carol Biesecker Bill Thomas Barbara White	Editorial Board: Stephen Blanchette Lisa Brownsword Paul Clements Eileen Forrester Mindi McDowell Sally Miller Bill Pollak