In his book, Beyond Software Architecture: Creating And Sustaining Winning Solutions, Luke Hohmann writes about the challenges of the software business world. His years of experience in the field of software development has been put to great use here, as he talks about fruitful ways of creating and sustaining winning solutions to harmonize the 'business' and 'technology' parts of the profession.

Summary Of The Book

Hohmann has created a blueprint for all those organizations countering the complications of delivering winning software solutions to their clients, without relinquishing the business value. There are numerous books about Software Architecture that cover areas like creation and implementation. But, Beyond Software Architecture: Creating And Sustaining Winning Solutions offers practical knowledge to not only create software solutions, but also to understand their consequences on business. It rightfully points out, how a software solution provided to a client, no matter how brilliant, has to also be in keeping with the client's ultimate business objectives.

The book discusses different facets of software architecture across 16 chapters, and is also recommended as a textbook for software engineering courses. Apart from the fundamentals of software architecture, it extensively cover topics like Business and License Models, Deployment Architecture, Integration and Extension, Release Management, and much more.

With the world of Information and Technology getting more and more competitive, it has become very important to fresh software engineers to understand business dynamics along with their sound technological knowledge and theoretical learning. This book doubles up in its usefulness, as it equips students in both these areas. It not only prepares them to build winning software architecture, but also helps them tackle business expectations.

It is a great tool to understand, explore and benefit from the inter-dependency of viable software solutions and successful business models. The resourceful content guides both business managers and program developers to work hand-in-hand.

About Luke Hohmann

A Computer Science postgraduate from the University of Michigan, batch of 1992, Luke Hohmann is a much sought after consultant in the fields of software development and organizational effectiveness.

He is also the author of Journey of the Software Professional: A Sociology of Software Development.

He has held roles ranging across various spheres of the software industry. Hohmann has served in the public sector as well. A prolific software developer himself, he now counsels companies and teams that aspire to accomplish exceptional levels of software solution management.