Success and failure factors for software architecture

This paper provides a view of the software architecture development and management process. It reviews the literature and practitioners experiences relating to the factors that cause success and failure for software architecture and classifies these factors into subgroups. This study demonstrates that the success of software architecture depends on multiple factors. Project management, organisational culture and communication, the skills of architects and architectural know-how, architecture methods and practices, the quality of system requirements and, finally, architecture solutions seem to affect the achievement of successful architecture.