Enhancing IT Architect capabilities: Experiences within a university subject

The role of IT Architect is important in the development and successful implementation of Information Technology systems across the world. The people performing the role are critical to the success of the systems. This paper reports on the results of an experiment aimed at developing two key IT architect capabilities within the context of a post graduate Systems Architecture subject. One capability is related to problem solving and while surprisingly student problem solving confidence was impacted other aspects of problem solving important for IT Architects were unchanged. The other capability being researched, future time orientation was also unchanged through intervention. Therefore alternative approaches for improving these capabilities are preferable as factors such as external pressures on the students within the semester outweighed any short term capability improvement

Experience with a Course on Architectures for Software Systems

As software systems grow in size and complexity their design problem extends beyond algorithms and data structures to issues of system design. This area receives little or no treatment in existing computer science curricula. Although courses about specific systems are usually available, there is no systematic treatment of the organizations and used to assemble components into systems. These issues - the software architecture level of software design - are the subject of a new course that we taught for the first time in Spring 1992. This paper describes the motivation for the course, the content and structure of the current version, and our plans for improving the next version.</p

Experience with a course on architectures for software systems

Abstract. As software systems grow in size and complexity their design problem extends beyond algorithms and data structures to issues of system design. This area receives little or no treatment in existing computer science curricula. Although courses about speci c systems are usually available, there is no systematic treatment of the organizations used to assemble components into systems. These issues { the software architecture level of software design { are the subject of a new course that we taught for the rst time in Spring 1992. This paper describes the motivation for the course, the content and structure of the current version, and our plans for improving the next version.

Experience with a Course on Architectures for Software Systems, Part II: Educational Materials

This report contains the materials used by the instructors to teach the course CS 15-775: Architectures for Software Systems in the Spring of 1994 in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The materials include the lecture slides, questions (with answers) on readings, and homework assignments (with sample solutions.)</p