Viewpoints and Perspectives

Yesterday I was talking to a former colleague of mine. We were discussing recently read software architecture books. He showed me some heavy stuff about legacy refactoring. I adviced him to read the book: “Software Systems Architecture, Working with stakeholders using viewpoints and perspectives” by Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods. This book is a great read and very helpful. The book is accompanied by a very informative website: http://www.viewpoints-and-perspectives.info. If you are a software architect struggling with various concerns of various stakeholders the theory and the practical advice of the authors might be very helpful to you. My former colleague bought it with one click.

I work with the IEEE1471 guidelines and the ideas of the 4+1 view for software architecture some years now, but the information provided by Nick and Eoin makes everything more tangible.