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System Architecture: The Silver Bullet?

abstract Many people jump onto systems architecting methods with the false expectation that these methods will solve most of their problems. A major reason to do this is uncertainty. The real world, unfortunately, is full of uncertainties, and systems architecting can help in dealing with these many uncertainties. However, systems architecting will not make uncertainties disappear, neither will it prevent effort to be spend on unexpected issues.


Silver Bullets do not exist.

The critical success factors for applying system architecture methods are described.

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