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The Irrelevance of Architecture

By Grady Booch

By Grady Booch on
May 26, 2007

cityscape with computer chipsIn this Episode

Grady discusses the architecture of a software-intensive system and why it's largely irrelevant to its end users.

From IEEE Software's Issue No. 03 — May/June 2007


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.

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