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Architecture Series 5-4 Solution Architecture Frankie Hsiang – Enterprise Technologist FrankieHsiang@yahoo.com Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 1
Audience & Objectives Business & IT managers, architects, team leads , and developers who want to use Solution Architecture as a tool to produce solid solutions that fully meet business needs, within budget, deploy on schedule, easy to maintain, and use fewer resources. Assuming audience have certain architecture knowledge and IT project management skills. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 2
Common IT System Issues Maintaining as-is system(s) consumes large percentage of IT budget and technical resources Very hard to train new developers to work on the applications It is hard to add new features Changes to a system frequently cause breakages on other parts of the system No one can really point to the business model Data integrity is often violated Duplicate functions on several systems Low morale in IT department Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 3
Solution Architecture Can Help Solution Architecture is a tool to produce solid IT solutions that fully meet business needs, within budget, deploy on schedule, easy to maintain, and use fewer resources Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 4
One Big Happy Family Business Model Driven Solution Architecture Centric Development Efficient Operations + High Quality of Services (QoS) One Big Happy Family Happy Business Users Happy Development Teams Happy Operation Teams Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 5
Solution Architecture Definition A business use cases driven system architecture. System Architecture - The fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment and the principles guiding its design and evolution - ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 6
Relationship to other IT disciplines Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 7
S. A. Methodology - BASE 1. Business Use Cases Driven Defines a set of unique business functions to fully address business needs 2. Architecture Centric Development Analysis, design, development, and deployment are centered around a layered architecture 3. Streamline Operations Streamline processes and reuse components for efficient and cost effective operations 4. Environmentally Friendly Build with fewer resources to prevent over engineering, reduce energy and resources footprint Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 8
Layered Solution Architecture Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 9
Reference S. A. Diagram Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 10
SPA Builds High Quality System • Separation of Concerns • Patterns driven design and construction* • Agile development process Common 80/20 rule - No one size fits all to avoid over engineering and lengthy analysis and design time. * See Reference #4, #5, #6, & #7 for design patterns resources. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 11
Stages of Architecture Maturity Business Silos, Standard Technology, Optimized Core, Business Modularity from ref. #1 OMB FEA Assessment Framework: 1 Initial, 2 Baseline, 3 Target, 4 Integrated, 5 Optimized; from ref. #2 Assess enterprise architecture maturity level. Different maturity level needs a different strategy and time frame to bring the organization to the next level of maturity. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 12
IBM RUP 4 + 1 Views Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 13
1. Business Use Cases Driven SOA is business transformation. Defines business processes, systems, actors, and interactions among them. CRC still works: Class, Responsibilities, & Collaboration Identify business use case & realize business use case to system use case. Build LOB level service catalogue with unique business functions Exchange canonical information among business services. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 14
SOA Essential Autonomy: Service is self-contained, and can be used individually. Flexibility: Flexible to accept unusual request. Interoperability and reusability via standard based technology and LOB level business object model Composability: Able to build new services from existing services. Support fast evolving business environment. Model Driven: Model defines Service Contract among services, including, interfaces, interaction and information as defined in the model. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 15
SOA Implementation Strategy Capture core business functions, processes, activities, data, key users, and why they are important. Define Canonical Business Object Model. Use the BOM to drive the LOB business process flow. Produce business driven roadmap and IT architecture Use roadmap and architecture to guide implementation Select SOA platform and utilize SOA platform functions to implement and manage services. Identify and promote SOA showcase project. Implement enterprise SOA one project at a time. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 16
Canonical Business Object Model A Line Of Business level BOM uses logical relational data model (Entity Relationship Diagram - ERD) and XML Schema (XSD) to define complete and detailed business entities down to individual attribute level and the exact business relationships among those business entities The core SOA business objects (vocabulary) for systems information exchange and integration in a particular LOB business domain. Helps to reduce the number of data transformation among data producers and consumers. Helps to integrate operational data onto data warehouse XSLT, XPath based BOM transformation utility Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 17
Develop Business Object Model Starts with LOB ERD – provides LOB level semantic and uniqueness check. Evolves to XML Schema – facilitates cross platforms inter-systems information exchange and integration Builds BOM incrementally. Increase communication & demonstrate value – Routinely display updated business object model in users workspace. Adopt industry standard if available. SWIFT – ISO 15022, FIX-FIXML, XBRL, MISMO, NIEM, … Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 18
2. Architecture Centric Development *1 - high technical risk or high business value *2 - Business use case to system use case realization - Architecture Elaboration in 4+1 view UML Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 19
Promote Show Case System(s) Use Show Case System to demonstrate good architecture quality on Use Case View Logical View Process View Implementation View Deployment View Note: A good example is one of the best way to provide easy to follow instructions. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 20
RUP - Deployment View Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 21
Benefits of Agile Development Identify and manage key risks early and iteratively Promote users & developers interaction Adopt change of requirements Measure progress objectively Demonstrate business value early Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 22
3. Streamline Operation Streamline processes with out-of-box thinking process analysis, and leverage new technologies to automate time consuming or labor intensive tasks. Establish standard operating procedure Promote standard based technologies Reuse components for efficient and cost effective operations Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 23
4. Environmentally Friendly Build with fewer resources to prevent over engineering Reduce energy and resources footprint Establish well defined common IT runtime environment Service Level Agreement. Routinely conduct SLA audit or test to ensure SLA quality. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 24
Next - Architecture Management Enterprise Architecture Guidance – Web accessible enterprise architecture principles, preferred platforms, standard runtime environment, and design patterns. Well defined SDLC process Embed EA guidance onto SDLC process and design document template. Architecture and Design Review Process. Code Review to ensure alignment to architecture guidance. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 25
Architecture Review Board ARB is a group of architects with technical authority to Review & approve major IT program architecture Provide technical guidance to project teams Enforce architecture governance Verify Business – IT architecture alignment Share business domain and technical knowledge among reviewers See Reference #8 - Effective Enterprise Architecture Action Plan Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 26
Architecture Validation A structured and consistent approach to evaluate a system’s quality before it is built. Completeness – complete and detailed SDLC required information Compliance - complies with Enterprise Architecture guidance & follows SDLC process. Consistency – Same scope on business, system, interfaces with consistent terminology, data integrity, and predictable results. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 27
Key ideas to take away Solution Architecture - BASE methodology - Business Use Cases Driven, Architecture Centric Development, Streamline Operations, & Environmentally Friendly Layered Architecture – SPA approach with 4+1 views SOA is business transformation – LOB level Canonical Business Object Model Architecture Management - provide up front architecture guidance, and after fact architecture assessment. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 28
Reference 1. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy ISBN 1-59139-839-8 2. Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/ 3. The Open Group – TOGAF 8.1.1 http://www.togaf.org/ 4. Service Oriented Architecture by Thomas Erl – ISBN 0-13-142898-5 5. SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl, & web site- http://www.soapatterns.org 6. Sun – Java Blue Print - http://java.sun.com/reference/blueprints/ 7. Enterprise Service Bus – David Chappell, ISBN 0-596-00675-6 8. “Architecture Series 5-5 - Effective Enterprise Architecture Action Plan.ppt” – Frankie Hsiang Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 29

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Architecture Series 5-4 Solution Architecture Draft

  • 1. Architecture Series 5-4 Solution Architecture Frankie Hsiang – Enterprise Technologist FrankieHsiang@yahoo.com Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 1
  • 2. Audience & Objectives Business & IT managers, architects, team leads , and developers who want to use Solution Architecture as a tool to produce solid solutions that fully meet business needs, within budget, deploy on schedule, easy to maintain, and use fewer resources. Assuming audience have certain architecture knowledge and IT project management skills. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 2
  • 3. Common IT System Issues Maintaining as-is system(s) consumes large percentage of IT budget and technical resources Very hard to train new developers to work on the applications It is hard to add new features Changes to a system frequently cause breakages on other parts of the system No one can really point to the business model Data integrity is often violated Duplicate functions on several systems Low morale in IT department Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 3
  • 4. Solution Architecture Can Help Solution Architecture is a tool to produce solid IT solutions that fully meet business needs, within budget, deploy on schedule, easy to maintain, and use fewer resources Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 4
  • 5. One Big Happy Family Business Model Driven Solution Architecture Centric Development Efficient Operations + High Quality of Services (QoS) One Big Happy Family Happy Business Users Happy Development Teams Happy Operation Teams Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 5
  • 6. Solution Architecture Definition A business use cases driven system architecture. System Architecture - The fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment and the principles guiding its design and evolution - ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 6
  • 7. Relationship to other IT disciplines Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 7
  • 8. S. A. Methodology - BASE 1. Business Use Cases Driven Defines a set of unique business functions to fully address business needs 2. Architecture Centric Development Analysis, design, development, and deployment are centered around a layered architecture 3. Streamline Operations Streamline processes and reuse components for efficient and cost effective operations 4. Environmentally Friendly Build with fewer resources to prevent over engineering, reduce energy and resources footprint Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 8
  • 9. Layered Solution Architecture Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 9
  • 10. Reference S. A. Diagram Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 10
  • 11. SPA Builds High Quality System • Separation of Concerns • Patterns driven design and construction* • Agile development process Common 80/20 rule - No one size fits all to avoid over engineering and lengthy analysis and design time. * See Reference #4, #5, #6, & #7 for design patterns resources. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 11
  • 12. Stages of Architecture Maturity Business Silos, Standard Technology, Optimized Core, Business Modularity from ref. #1 OMB FEA Assessment Framework: 1 Initial, 2 Baseline, 3 Target, 4 Integrated, 5 Optimized; from ref. #2 Assess enterprise architecture maturity level. Different maturity level needs a different strategy and time frame to bring the organization to the next level of maturity. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 12
  • 13. IBM RUP 4 + 1 Views Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 13
  • 14. 1. Business Use Cases Driven SOA is business transformation. Defines business processes, systems, actors, and interactions among them. CRC still works: Class, Responsibilities, & Collaboration Identify business use case & realize business use case to system use case. Build LOB level service catalogue with unique business functions Exchange canonical information among business services. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 14
  • 15. SOA Essential Autonomy: Service is self-contained, and can be used individually. Flexibility: Flexible to accept unusual request. Interoperability and reusability via standard based technology and LOB level business object model Composability: Able to build new services from existing services. Support fast evolving business environment. Model Driven: Model defines Service Contract among services, including, interfaces, interaction and information as defined in the model. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 15
  • 16. SOA Implementation Strategy Capture core business functions, processes, activities, data, key users, and why they are important. Define Canonical Business Object Model. Use the BOM to drive the LOB business process flow. Produce business driven roadmap and IT architecture Use roadmap and architecture to guide implementation Select SOA platform and utilize SOA platform functions to implement and manage services. Identify and promote SOA showcase project. Implement enterprise SOA one project at a time. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 16
  • 17. Canonical Business Object Model A Line Of Business level BOM uses logical relational data model (Entity Relationship Diagram - ERD) and XML Schema (XSD) to define complete and detailed business entities down to individual attribute level and the exact business relationships among those business entities The core SOA business objects (vocabulary) for systems information exchange and integration in a particular LOB business domain. Helps to reduce the number of data transformation among data producers and consumers. Helps to integrate operational data onto data warehouse XSLT, XPath based BOM transformation utility Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 17
  • 18. Develop Business Object Model Starts with LOB ERD – provides LOB level semantic and uniqueness check. Evolves to XML Schema – facilitates cross platforms inter-systems information exchange and integration Builds BOM incrementally. Increase communication & demonstrate value – Routinely display updated business object model in users workspace. Adopt industry standard if available. SWIFT – ISO 15022, FIX-FIXML, XBRL, MISMO, NIEM, … Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 18
  • 19. 2. Architecture Centric Development *1 - high technical risk or high business value *2 - Business use case to system use case realization - Architecture Elaboration in 4+1 view UML Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 19
  • 20. Promote Show Case System(s) Use Show Case System to demonstrate good architecture quality on Use Case View Logical View Process View Implementation View Deployment View Note: A good example is one of the best way to provide easy to follow instructions. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 20
  • 21. RUP - Deployment View Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 21
  • 22. Benefits of Agile Development Identify and manage key risks early and iteratively Promote users & developers interaction Adopt change of requirements Measure progress objectively Demonstrate business value early Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 22
  • 23. 3. Streamline Operation Streamline processes with out-of-box thinking process analysis, and leverage new technologies to automate time consuming or labor intensive tasks. Establish standard operating procedure Promote standard based technologies Reuse components for efficient and cost effective operations Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 23
  • 24. 4. Environmentally Friendly Build with fewer resources to prevent over engineering Reduce energy and resources footprint Establish well defined common IT runtime environment Service Level Agreement. Routinely conduct SLA audit or test to ensure SLA quality. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 24
  • 25. Next - Architecture Management Enterprise Architecture Guidance – Web accessible enterprise architecture principles, preferred platforms, standard runtime environment, and design patterns. Well defined SDLC process Embed EA guidance onto SDLC process and design document template. Architecture and Design Review Process. Code Review to ensure alignment to architecture guidance. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 25
  • 26. Architecture Review Board ARB is a group of architects with technical authority to Review & approve major IT program architecture Provide technical guidance to project teams Enforce architecture governance Verify Business – IT architecture alignment Share business domain and technical knowledge among reviewers See Reference #8 - Effective Enterprise Architecture Action Plan Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 26
  • 27. Architecture Validation A structured and consistent approach to evaluate a system’s quality before it is built. Completeness – complete and detailed SDLC required information Compliance - complies with Enterprise Architecture guidance & follows SDLC process. Consistency – Same scope on business, system, interfaces with consistent terminology, data integrity, and predictable results. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 27
  • 28. Key ideas to take away Solution Architecture - BASE methodology - Business Use Cases Driven, Architecture Centric Development, Streamline Operations, & Environmentally Friendly Layered Architecture – SPA approach with 4+1 views SOA is business transformation – LOB level Canonical Business Object Model Architecture Management - provide up front architecture guidance, and after fact architecture assessment. Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 28
  • 29. Reference 1. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy ISBN 1-59139-839-8 2. Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/ 3. The Open Group – TOGAF 8.1.1 http://www.togaf.org/ 4. Service Oriented Architecture by Thomas Erl – ISBN 0-13-142898-5 5. SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl, & web site- http://www.soapatterns.org 6. Sun – Java Blue Print - http://java.sun.com/reference/blueprints/ 7. Enterprise Service Bus – David Chappell, ISBN 0-596-00675-6 8. “Architecture Series 5-5 - Effective Enterprise Architecture Action Plan.ppt” – Frankie Hsiang Architecture Series 5 - 4 - Solution Architecture 29