The Elephant and The Blind Programmers

By Grady Booch
Published 11/26/2010
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The architecture of a software-intensive system is best reasoned about through multiple, nearly independent views. Here Grady examines Kruchten’s 4+1 model view in a new light.
From IEEE Software’s Issue No. 06 — Nov./Dec. 2010

 

 


Grady Booch
About Grady Booch

Grady Booch is a Chief Scientist of Software Engineering at IBM. He is recognized internationally for improving the art and the science of software development and has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world. The author of six best-selling books and several hundred articles on computing, he has lectured on topics as diverse as software methodology and the morality of computing. He is an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, and a Software Development Forum Visionary. Learn more about Booch.