HOME ABOUT US SERVICES TRAINING NEWS PLUG NEWS ARCHIVE IT ARCHITECTURE EXPERTS IN STOCKHOLM Addalot presented architecture assessment at ITARC 2015 May 17, 2015 By Even-André Karlsson Stockholm City hosted the Iasa Global Summit, ITARC 2015 with over 300 participants May 21-22. ITARC is a leading international conference where IT architects and thought leaders come together to discuss IT architecture. It does not matter if you are an enterprise, solution, infrastructure or software architect. Your job is to create VALUE in one form or another. ITARC 2015 will discuss various methods, systems and experiences to help IT architects create and sustain value on all levels. ITARC 2015 will discuss various methods, systems and experiences to help IT architects create and sustain value on all levels of the profession. This years ITARC will consist of one day of keynotes and presentations in addition to a second day of workshops. Even-André Karlsson presented ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Assessment Method) a method for evaluation of architectures. ATAM was developed by Software Engineering Instititute (SEI) for Department of Defence, as well as our experience using this method. One of the main findings is that ATAM is known as a technique, but our impression was that the full potential of ATAM was not utilized in most organizations. The main benefit of ATAM in our view is that it creates a common understanding of the architecture, which at an early stage in the project is quite abstract, and can hardly be captured in a single document. The traditional review of the architecture document by different experts, e.g. security, infrastructure, information, etc. does not give the benefits of the full ATAM process. This was also the context in which ATAM was developed for that US DoD, i.e. their contractors had normal architecture boards and reviews, but they still failed. This aspect of the ATAM process is often overlooked. For more inforamtion see the detailed program . EVEN-ANDRÉ KARLSSON even-andre.karlsson@addalot.se comments powered by Disqus NEWS 2015-05-18 WHY DOES MY BOSS HATE AGILE? If agile development is so good, why do some managers withdraw to adopt this approach? Many managers are trained in ... 2015-05-17 IT ARCHITECTURE EXPERTS IN STOCKHOLM Stockholm City hosted the Iasa Global Summit, ITARC 2015 with over 300 participants May 21-22. ITARC is a leading ... 2015-05-16 AGILE LEADERS - ARE THEY THERE? In many software departments that have introduced agile development, it is unclear whether - and how - leadership is affected. What... 2015-05-08 SUMMARY OF SECURITY CRITICAL SOFTWARE 2015 Addalot's third conference Security Critical Software took place in March and was, as last year, a great success. Experts ... 2015-05-07 THOUGHTS ON SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT We continue our interview series, where the Swedish Academy of Software Engineering reflects on the development of industry, with ... To the news archive CONTACT US Addalot Consulting AB Gråbrödersgatan 8 SE-211 21 Malmö, SWEDEN +46 (0) 40 97 24 00 QUICK LINKS Home About us Services Training News plug