Introduction: Architecting Process Components

Introduction: Architecting Process Components Having outlined the products of architecting (models) in Chapter 8, this chapter turns to its process. The goal is not a formal process denition. Systems are too diverse to allow a xed or dogmatic approach to architecting. Instead of trying for a formal process denition, developed in this chapter is a set of meta-process concepts for architecting activities and their relationships. Architectural design processes are inherently eclectic and wide ranging, going abruptly from the intensely creative and individualistic to the more prescribed and routine. Even though the processes may be eclectic, they can be organized. Of the various organizing concepts, one of the most useful is stepwise progression or “renement.”