Better Products – The Value of Systems Architecting

Summary

Systems architecting will ensure that the interactions between components are controlled in a proper way and that components are designed to fit each other. When talking of better products, then “better” can have two different meanings: more satisfying or even more enjoyable for customers, and more profitable for the organization. Systems architecting can enable a top‐down realization of business goals, requirements, quality criteria and product strategies into solutions. The standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 declares that each system exhibits an architecture. Systems architecting can help reducing cost by ensuring that subsystems are developed and produced: according to the correct specification, and in just the quality that is needed and not in worse or better quality. The aim of systems architecting is to shape the architecture that is later exhibited by a system under development. Model‐based systems architecting allows creating a model from which different views can be generated toward different stakeholders.