Software Architecture Decision-Making Practices and Recommendations

The role of Software Architect plays a vital role in entire software development process and becomes highly responsible when the software goes into deployment as business operations and automations are based on the software system. Since business operations are fully dependent on the software system, software architectural decision-making process becomes one of the major activities of a successful software projects. In this paper, we have depicted a series of empirical ways based on real life experiences so that software architects able to make accurate decision before going into software development. Regardless of architecture decision-making process, this paper may help software engineers, project managers, business owners and stakeholders in developing enterprise solutions.