1. The Architecture Business Cycle
Submitted
by
Ashish Agrawal
M.Tech. (Software
Engineering)
1The ABC Cycle

2. Introduction
“S/w architecture in turn affects the technical , business,
social environments that subsequently influence future
architectures. This is known as cycle of influences;
from the environment to architecture & back to the
environment, the Architecture Business Cycle(ABC).”
2The ABC Cycle

3. • The relationships among business goals, product
requirement & architecture form a cycle with feedback
loop that used to handle growth & system growth.
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• Architecture Business Cycle (ABC)
“Architecture Business Cycle (ABC) is description of a
system, used to represent relationship among structures/
components of the system to the environment in which
the system is developed and implemented.”
- Shahid Hussain (ABC for embedded system)
is description of a system, used to represent relationship among structures/ components of
the system to the environment in which the system is developed and implemented.
- Shahid Hussain (ABC for embedded system)The ABC Cycle

4. Where do Architectures come
from?
Architectures are influenced-
• By system stakeholders.
• By the developing organization.
• By the experience of the architect.
• By the technical environment.
4The ABC Cycle

5. 5Figure 1: Influences on the architecture
Stakeholders
Developing
Organization
Technical
environment
Architect’s
experience
Requirements
(Qualities)
Architect(s) Architecture
System
Architect’s Influence
The ABC Cycle

6. 6Figure 2: The Architecture Business Cycle
Stakeholders
Developing
Organization
Technical
environment
Architect’s
experience
Requirements
(Qualities)
Architect(s) Architecture
System
Architect’s Influence
The ABC Cycle

7. 7
The architecture affects the factors that influence
them(Cycle works as):-
The architecture affects the –
• Structure of the developing organization.
• Goals of the developing of the organization.
• Customer requirements with reusability.
• The process of the system building will affect the
architect’s experience with subsequent systems .
The ABC Cycle

8. Architecture business cycle changes-
– Organization goals to requirement.
– Requirement to architecture.
– Architecture to systems.
– Systems to organization.
Influences -
– Technical, business , social.
– Stakeholders, other source.
8The ABC Cycle

9. ABC activities includes
• Create the business case.
• Understand the requirement.
• Create the architecture.
• Document & communicate the architecture.
• Analyze the architecture.
• Implement the system based on architecture.
• Conforms the implementation.
9The ABC Cycle

10. 10
“The cycle worked well as a guiding model to
understand the role of the architecture in the
software development process.”
“Presents theoretical & practical benefits.”
-Carl Magnus Olsson
(Case Study of ABC)
The ABC Cycle

11. Qualities of a Good Architecture
With in the “ABC” , architect produces architecture
& that should be-
– the product of one or many architects
– well documented
– circulated to the system’s stakeholders
– fulfill all the customer’s requirements
– analyzed and evaluated for quality attributes
– incremental
11The ABC Cycle

12. Thank You
Submitted
by
Ashish Agrawal
M.Tech. (Software Engineering)
1201409501
12The ABC Cycle