I am currently in the middle of implementing a process repository on my current assignment. Most of the material I am using is copyright protected, so I cannot publish it. I have created some supporting material that is simply links to material so I can post them. I have cut and pasted the results below.

The Architecture Business Cycle

Web Site

• Software Architecture for Software-Intensive Systems

Paper

• Categorizing Business Goals for Software Architectures

Article

• The Architecture Business Cycle Revisited: A Business Goals Taxonomy to Support Architecture Design and Analysis
   

Software Architecture Life-Cycle Integration

Papers

• A Life-Cycle View of Architecture Analysis and Design Methods
• Integrating Software-Architecture-Centric Methods into the Rational Unified Process
• Integrating Software-Architecture-Centric Methods into Extreme Programming (XP)
• SEI Architecture Analysis Techniques and When to Use Them

Article

• Rethinking the Software Life Cycle

Presentation

• Using Architecture-Centric Methods within Plan Driven and Agile Software Development Processes

Quality Attribute Workshops

Web Site

• Quality Attribute Workshops

Papers

• Quality Attributes
• Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition
• Quality Attributes and Service-Oriented Architectures
• Integrating the Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) and the Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) Method
• Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns
• Quality Attribute Design Primitives
• Analyzing Enterprise JavaBeans Systems Using Quality Attribute Design Primitives

Presentation

• Quality Attribute Workshop

Attribute-Driven Design (ADD)

Web Site

• Attribute-Driven Design Method

Papers

• Attribute-Driven Design (ADD), Version 2.0
• A Practical Example of Applying Attribute-Driven Design (ADD), Version 2.0

Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)

Web Site

• The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)

Papers

• ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation
• Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
• Integrating the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) with the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)
• Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach
• Applicability of General Scenarios to the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

Article

• Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the ATAM and the CBAM

Cost-Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)

Web Site

• Cost-Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)

Papers

• Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach
• Using Economic Considerations to Choose Among Architecture Design Alternatives

Presentation

• Assessing the Economic Impacts of Architectural Decisions
  

Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs (ARID)

Web Site

• Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs (ARID)
• Software Architecture Evaluations

Papers

• Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs

Suggested Books on Software Architecture

Software Architecture in Practice (2nd Edition) (The SEI Series in Software Engineering) by Len Bass, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman

Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies by Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, and Mark Klein

Essential Software Architecture by Ian Gorton

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1: A System of Patterns by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, and Peter Sommerlad

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing by Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, and Douglas C. Schmidt

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe

Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives by Nick Rozanski and Eóin Woods

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, and David Garlan

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