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Business architecture & modeling bibliography

Architecture and project management
Brooks, Frederick P., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20^th Anniversary Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995. Chapter 16, No Silver Bullet, Essence and Accident, discusses essential and accidental complexity.

Business objects
Penker & Erikson, Business Modeling with UML: Business Patterns at Work, Penker and Erikson propose a number of UML extensions to support modeling of business processes in UML. They also provide a number of business modeling patterns based on a case study.

Taylor, David, Object Technology: A Managers Guide, 2^nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1997. The 2^nd edition of David's classic introduction to object technology. In addition to discussing key concepts like objects, classes, and messaging, it covers more recent concepts such as interfaces, components and the applicability of object technology to modeling enterprises as complex adaptive systems.

Taylor, David, Business Engineering with Object Technology, Addison-Wesley, 1995. This book introduces the fundamental concepts of convergent engineering including using objects to model businesses, a business object semantics and responsibility-driven business design.

Fowler, Martin, Analysis Patterns, Reusable Object Models, Addison-Wesley,1997. Fowler extends the pattern approach to the field of business modeling. He has a number of common patterns to model common business problems like representing the structure of a business enterprise, measuring business performance, modeling business agreements, etc. I found it quite helpful when designing the performance and operations management system in its discussion of measurement patterns including unit of measure conversion patterns. He also has an excellent section on architectural layers for multi-tier architectures.

Gale/Eldred, Getting Results with the Object-Oriented Enterprise Model, SIGS Books, 1996. This book relates enterprise modeling to fundamental thinking in general systems theory and current management models like Porter's value chain. It is a pretty thick and earnest book, but I found some quite useful thinking throughout.

Model driven architecture
Frankel, David S, Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to enterprise computing, Wiley, 2003 This book looks at modeling languages as programming languages (rather than simply design tools). It looks pragmatically at what can be accomplished with MDA today towards the promise of generating executable code from platform independent business models.

Hubert, Richard, Convergent Architecture: building model-driven J2EE systems with UML, Wiley, 2001. This book relates business architecture and design to systems architecture and design using the concept of “convergent” business components. This is the first practical how-to-guide to applying the concept of model-driven architecture from OMG, an international standards-setting group that established UML as a modeling standard.

Object methodology & technology
Gamma et al, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison Wesley, 1995.  This seminal book in the "pattern language of programming" field is indispensable for designers of object based systems who have to work with object developers in producing executable code. It presents a set of generalized patterns to solve and implement common design problems (eg, how to implement fractal objects using the "Composite" pattern or state dependent behavior, using the "State" pattern. It is pretty technical and has sample code fragments in Smalltalk and C++.

Wirfs-Brock, Rebecca, et al, Designing Object-0riented Software, Prentice Hall PTR, 1990. Wirfs-Brock and her associates introduced the responsibility driven design method in this book which applies the technique to the development of a variety of software systems. This book provided much of the inspiration behind the design methodology used in convergent engineering, a precursor to business architecture.

Jacobsen, Ivar, The Object Advantage, Business Process Reengineering with Object Technology, Addison-Wesley, 1995. Jacobsen is a real pioneer in the application of object technology to the development of business systems. His Use Case Methodology and Objectory process are at the heart of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Rational Unified Process (RUP). I find the "uses" and "extends" relationships between use cases to be an excellent way to decompose business requirements. I also use some of his use case scripting techniques as a way to write scenarios.

Schlaer/Mellor, Object Life Cycles, Modeling the World in States, PTR Prentice Hall, 1992. A follow on book to Modeling the World in Data (which proposed a data driven approach to designing objects). This book on "states" provides a very accessible discussion of modeling object life cycles, including events, state transitions and state dependent behaviour. The Schlaer/Mellor methodology has received greatest acceptance in the design and development of real time systems.

Firesmith/Eykholt, Dictionary of Object Technology, The Definitive Desk Reference [DOT], SIGS Books, 1995. This is an indispensable reference book for anyone involved in trying to understand the many, often conflicting uses of terms in object technology by different methodologists.

Complex adaptive systems
Holland, John H., How Adaptation Builds Complexity, Addison-Wesley, 1995. The first two chapters of this book provide an excellent overview of the fundamental elements of complex adaptive systems and the adaptive behaviour of agents. The balance of the book describes attempts to develop computer simulations and a theory of complex adaptive systems.

Enterprise architecture links: links to a wide range of EA websites can be found at http://www.ewita.com/links/links.htm


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