Visual Architecting Process™ Action Guides
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- Conceptual Architecture
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  - Specification
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Key Architecture Action Guides™ (and associated templates) are listed below:

• Conceptual Architecture Diagram Action Guide (.pdf) ; Template (.vsd)

• Component-Responsibility-Collaborator-Rationale (CRC-R) Action Guide (.pdf); Template (.doc)

• Conceptual Architecture Document Action Guide (.pdf); Template (.doc)

You might also find it useful to document aspects of the Conceptual Architecture using:

• Architectural Mechanism Action Guide (.pdf); Template (.doc)

• Technical White Paper Action Guide (.pdf); Template (.doc)

• Conceptual Architecture Chapter, Software Architecture Action Guide by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer. See Table of Contents to download drafts of chapters. Join our mailing list to receive updates.

• We run open enrollment Software Architecture Workshops as well as in-house workshops. Team-focused workshops are highly energizing and productive, as we do important work on the team's architecture project, giving a huge boost to the project as well as providing a learning experience focused on the Visual Architecting Process. We also work with teams to tailor the process to best suit their project and organization.

Papers on Architecture Modeling and Specification

• Malan, Ruth, "On the Importance of Modeling," September 13, 2006.

Blog Posts on Conceptual Architecture

• Creating A Conceptual Architecture, Doug Newdick, March 2011

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We invite you to contribute templates and models that you find useful in documenting architecturally significant requirements and creating facets of the Conceptual Architecture. If your contribution is selected for publication in the book, or on this web site, your name will appear in the acknowledgments.   

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