Tracy Bannon

It's the humans that matter...

๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ข๐—–๐—ž๐—ฆ!: We need more architects

๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ข๐—–๐—ž๐—ฆ! Those who know me, know that this is squarely where my heart rests. ๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€ and we need organizations to understand the importance of architecture!

Sing with me: Architetural Tradeoff Analysis Rocks!!

๐—œ'๐—บ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ! Ok, maybe not a song... actually a set of software architecture concepts and principles that drive architectural design decisions. The process and decisions are almost *๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ* binary. There is a logical an repeatable way to rationalize decisions: ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€.

Do you know what Software Quality Attributes are?

Do you know what ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ are and more importantly, why they matter? Our online community may benefit from talking about 2 topics: Software quality attributes (SQAs) and architecture trade-off analysis. Since trade-offs depend on attributes letโ€™s dig in here first!