Positioning Architecting Methods in the business

The focus of architectural reasoning methods is on the technical design issues. The relation with the business context is discussed: the business itself, people aspects and process and organizational aspects. The goal is to define architecting methods, which can be customized to the business needs, with minimal assumptions about people, process and organization. The operational stakeholders and their concerns are discussed. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. March 6, 2013 status: preliminary draft version: 1.0 product creation Business Architecting method People Process Organisation sets targets supports supports fits in enables perform Context of architecting methods product creation Business Architecting method People Process Organisation sets targets supports supports fits in enables perform Positioning Architecting Methods in the business 2 Gerrit Muller version: 1.0 March 6, 2013 PBUSScontext