Software architecture decisions are never of pure technical nature.
The short-term investment has to be balanced against the long-term profit.
Wolfgang Weck
Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Ing. (ETH Zurich)
I am an Independent Software Architect, based in Zurich, Switzerland.
What can I do for you?
Project Management
Using architecture as the tool to divide labor and system complexity among smaller,
comprehensible subprojects.
Planning and coordinating subprojects and checking their results.
Overseeing / moderating the communication and decision processes between product owners and developers.
Software Architecture Design
Defining components, services, and their interfaces.
Finding a balance between over-engineering and over-simplification by
keeping an eye on the cost-benefit ratio.
Interface Management
Coordinating, consolidating, and checking the technical interfaces between sub-suppliers.
A valuable contribution to your quality assurance.
Coaching / Audits of Architecture-Related Processes
Defining development processes ensuring that architectural requirements are collected
and evaluated. Triggering explicit decisions.
Goal-driven system design. Demonstration of requirement fulfillment by suitably designed tests.
Software-Architecture Review
Analyzing, to what extent an architecture meets the requirements relevant for you.
Finding possible improvements.