Convergence of Management and Architecture

Abstract

This chapter will present a perspective on the project management process and a system architectural tool, which together create a complete and uniform framework for developing real-time systems across hardware and software platforms. We will review some powerful tools and methods that will empower the project managers to architect a system or system architects to manage a project. We want to bring together these two powerful positions, organically, into the organizational chart along with the rest of the development team. Performing this process and its unique tools, unlike other traditional methods, allows you to make only the product, and not the processes or the tools, at the center of the project. Along the way we will come across some more powerful tools that will differentiate this method of product development from other product development methodologies.