Supporting Organizational Qualities Through Architectural Patterns
Fritz Solms · 2016
The structure of an organization is known to affect an organization’s qualities. Commonly variations of the hierarchical patterns are used to constrain the structure of organizations. Examples include functional and divisional hierarchies, and organizations based on a matrix structure. In either case the depth of the hierarchies can be varied. For software architectures a much wider set of architectural patterns is considered and patterns are combined in such a way as to support desired system qualities. This paper suggests that many of these patterns are applicable also for organizational architectures and proposes a conceptual framework for the selection and application of architectural patterns in order to improve the quality attributes of an organization.