IBM recently updated their "Software Architect Kit", a bundle of content for architects including podcasts by Grady Booch on trends, patterns and best practices in architecture, webcasts, demos, and whitepapers on patterns-based development, SOA, model-driven architecture, and software structure & modularity. The kit requires registration before all the content can be downloaded. The full content of the kit includes:
Grady Booch podcast series:
- Current trends in software architecture
- The role of the architect
- Architectural styles and patterns
- The future of software architecture
Webcast:
- Scaling the business of global architecture and design: Explore new capabilities in Rational Software Architect, V7
White paper:
- Introduction to modeling
Demos:
- Browse and topic diagram creation
- Static sequence diagram creation
- Architectural discovery diagrams
- Structural analysis
- Code review
- J2EE development using UML transformations
developerWorks articles and other resources:
- Good modeling, good governance
- An introduction to architecture management
- Evolution of developer skills is essential for job survival
- UML in support of model-driven development (MDD)
- An introduction to Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
- Gain an edge in patterns-based development using Rational Software Architect
