Technology Strategy Patterns: Analyzing and Communicating Architectural Decisions

Technologists who want their ideas heard, understood, and funded are often told to speak the language of business-without really knowing what that is. This book's toolkit provides architects, product managers, technology managers, and executives with a shared language-in the form of repeatable, practical patterns and templates-to produce great technology strategies. Author Eben Hewitt developed 39 patterns over the course of a decade in his work as CTO, CIO, and chief architect for several global tech companies. With these proven tools, you can define, create, elaborate, refine, and communicate your architecture goals, plans, and approach in a way that executives can readily understand, approve, and execute. This book covers: Architecture and strategy: Adopt a strategic architectural mindset to make a meaningful material impact Creating your strategy: Define the components of your technology strategy using proven patterns Communicating the strategy: Convey your technology strategy in a compelling way to a variety of audiences Bringing it all together: Employ patterns individually or in clusters for specific problems; use the complete framework for a comprehensive strategy

As Chief Architect and VP of Product Development, Eben Hewitt is responsible for the technology strategy at Sabre, a $6B global software product company. Prior to that he served for several years as CTO at one of the world's largest hotel companies. He has led teams of hundreds across all areas of technology and product development. He works with C-level executives to create & communicate the technology vision, strategy, and architecture, working at the intersection of technology, strategy, business & product development. He is the author Cassandra: The Definitive Guide (two editions, translated into Chinese), and has authored books on architecture, SOA, Java, and other programming languages. He served as a series editor at Prentice Hall. He has spoken at O'Reilly's Software Architecture and Web 2.0 conferences, Amazon re:Invent, Oracle headquarters, Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, Tata Institute in Banglaore, and others. He has won awards from Oracle and VMWare for his distribution integration with Google Inc. Eben's technology & strategy experience spans 20 years in software product companies, travel, retail, media, publishing, government, internet service providers, venture capital & business development.