📝What is Architecture?

• Architecture as what’s most important

• Architecture as things hard to change

  • with good architecture, there are few things that are hard to change

• Architecture as a shared understanding

• Architecture as a set of important decisions

• Theory Building View of programming—architecture as overarching theory

• Architecture as product design/specification

• Architecture is a buzzword

• Architecture as financial options

In other fields

• In building

• Enterprise architecture

  Enterprise architecture is a description of the structure and behavior of an organization’s processes, information flow, personnel, and organizational subunits aligned with organization’s core goals and strategic direction. —Bass…₂₀₁₃ p.8