System Architecture

System Architects practice the process of defining, specifying, modeling, designing and tracking the development of systems of interconnected machines in a proactive and rational manner. Critical Information Systems operate in life and/or high fiscal impact mission support areas (i.e. flight or vehicle systems, spacecraft control, contamination or other event detection systems). Knowledge of system architecture is a critical knowledge domain that complements the system engineering approach.

 

Government-procured and military systems have relied on systems engineering principles as a result of lessons learned from complex system development. System failures of critical government systems has led to the condition where development plans and policies and requirements are sometimes over-specified. Programs have typically overreacted to this over-specification by slowing design and development with oversight boards, or by selectively ignoring requirements.

 

Commercial business market pressures frequently outpace the ability of these organizations to train and apply individuals that can rigorously apply systems engineering principles to projects under development. Failure to apply Systems Architecture in a systematic fashion on projects with more than one developmental organization (e.g. software development and electrical engineering and system test) can lead to a confusing, over budget and under performing development effort.

 

 

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Architectural Techniques

Planning:

· Proposals

· Business Plans

· Research

· Scheduling

· Process Development

· Change Management

· CONOPS

Analysis:

· Requirements

· Object  Oriented Analysis

· Modeling

· Use Cases

· Test Plans

 

 

Architecture:

· Data Flows

· Scenarios

· Objects

· Client/Server Messaging

· Relational Databases

· Multithreading

· Architectural Descriptions

Implementation:

· Software Development

· Reviews

· Unit Tests

· Integration

· Debugging

· Run For Record

· Deployment

Proven Skillsets

Planning:

· Microsoft Word

· Adobe Acrobat

· Microsoft Project

· Microsoft Excel

· Sciforma Project Scheduler

Analysis:

· OOA UML

· Microsoft Visio

 

 

Architecture:

· Solaris

· Linux

· Microsoft Windows

· TCP/IP

· UDP

· Sybase/Oracle

· Microsoft  Access

· IEEE 1471-2000

Implementation:

· C

· C++

· Java

· Visual Basic

· Scripting Languages

· SQL