Solution Architecture,touching base

Roman Shramkov, Kharkiv 2015

About Me

• Developer and Architect in enterprise Java sector for many years

• Engineer and Practitioner by heart

• Solution Architect in EPAM’s Java Competency Center

• Spare time Manager

Why Architecture is important?

An opinion

Software Architect is just a fancy title. In Agile there are no architects and it rocks!

Chaotic Design

Disciplined Design

Is it easy? It is hard.

• Vision

• Will

• Leadership

• Competency

• Focus

Who is a Solution Architect?

Definition

The solutions architect is responsible for translating the requirements created by functional analysts into the architecture for that solution and describing it through the set of architecture and design artifacts.

Those artifacts are then used by the rest of the development team to implement the solution.

The process of defining architecture by the solutions architect often involvesselection of the most appropriate technology for the problem being solved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutions_Architect

Product Delivery Services

Conceptualization

Architecting

ConstructionDevelopment

Release

Solution Architect’s place

Solution Architect

Business Architect

Software Developer

Database Developer

System Administrator

Devops

Technology Architect

Information Architect

Enterprise Architect

Software Architect

QAImplementation

Physical

Logical

Conceptual

Contextual

Business ApplicationInformation/

DataTechnology

Business Analyst

Solution Architect

Expectations

• Understand my business needs and propose solutions

• Know trends and fill my technology knowledge gap

• Know typical and proved solutions

• Propose different options, compare them and help me chose

• Help with actual implementation planning

Solution Architect

Values

• Clear, completed and confirmed requirements

• Low cost of solution selection through models and prototypes

• Wide vision and expertise for educated choices

• Shared final solution understanding

• Architecture governance

Solution Architect

Skills

• Clarification, analysis and documentation

• Communication, negotiation and facilitation

• Visualization and explanation

• Technical Leadership

• Des of technologies and solutions

Lessons learned

Change your mindset

Context Diagrams

Concept Diagrams

Blocks & ConnectorsLogical Diagram

BE SIMPLE

Stay pragmatic

Be organized

Next steps

Grow as Generalist

Content UI/UX Java Web Cloud Integration

Cross-Discipline Competence

Deep-DisciplineCompetence

Q n A

References

SA

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutions_Architect

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_architecture

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/mar06/eeles/index.html

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/524941/whats-the-difference-between-solutions-architect-and-applications-architect

PDS2.0

• https://dev.by/lenta/main/epam-bolshe-ne-epam

EDU

• http://www.sei.cmu.edu/

• https://www.opengroup.org/togaf/

• http://www.amazon.com/Software-Architecture-Practice-3rd-Engineering/dp/0321815734/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443684547&sr=1-3&keywords=documenting+software+architectures

• http://www.amazon.com/Documenting-Software-Architectures-Views-Beyond/dp/0321552687/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443684547&sr=1-1&keywords=documenting+software+architectures

• http://www.amazon.com/Evaluating-Software-Architectures-Methods-Studies/dp/020170482X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443684649&sr=8-1&keywords=evaluating+software+architecture