Chris F Carroll

So, let me cheat (I mean, do research) on my pre-conference assignment: What's your short(ish) list (what should be required reading for software architects)?

Perhaps my mind is duller than yours, but I'd still come back to, "SA In Practise" and its focus on the pursuit of software qualities. All else follows from that. Decisions matter precisely as they help achieve or not the desired qualities

Yes, I was acknowledging your mention (of SA in Practice, or any in that series, really) and asking what else:https://twitter.com/ruthmalan/status/1117911985268641797 …

Any of several books now cover that space (eg Design It, by Keeling), and I agree that at least one of those should be core reading.

As for duller minds, it’s not a competition ;-) :-) (sorry, low hanging fruit jokes are the only ones i’m tall enough to pick, and my mind certainly had its unequalled dull moments :-)

Jest(er)ing aside, I really like this as a must criteria for (at least one work covering the topic) such a minimal list: “focus on the pursuit of software qualities”

Which would then raise the question of what else is a core topic? Views? So Rosanski and Woods, along with the SEI crew books (in a “pick at least one” sense)?

No! Just, “Focus on the pursuit of software qualities”. Views and everything else in an SA textbook are a means to that end :-)