Title:
Success and Failure Factors for Software Architecture
Abstract: This paper provides a view of the software architecture
development and management process. It reviews the literature and practitioners’
experiences relating to the factors that cause success and failure for software
architecture and classifies these factors into subgroups. This study demonstrates
that the success of software architecture depends on multiple factors. Project
manage-ment, organisational culture and communication, the skills of architects
and ar-chitectural know-how, architecture methods and practices, the quality
of sys-tem requirements and, finally, architecture solutions seem to affect
the achieve-ment of successful architecture.
Authors: Niina Hämäläinen,
Jouni Markkula, Tanja Ylimäki, and Markku Sakkinen