Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Grady Booch: On Archtecture

Grady Booch

best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.

Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments. He has devoted his life's work to improving the art and the science of software development. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003. 
He now is part of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering, where he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable.
 
Grady Booch : On Architecture : " Draw me a picture"

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Great podcast :
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitecture
Booch - On Architecture Podcasts

Aside from giving some guidance on what we're trying to do when we start drawing system architecures for discussion and posterity, this gives a summary of the values of architectural viewpoints.

He also presents a summary of the series so far.


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