Understanding the System Context

This chapter explores the role of system context in software architecture, which is essential for successful software development. It explains the difference between system context and software architecture and how to integrate it into architectural design. The chapter outlines the importance of stakeholder engagement and communication, identifying and categorizing system stakeholders, and offering effective engagement strategies. It also provides tools and techniques for communicating with stakeholders and strategies for overcoming common engagement challenges. The chapter also covers functional requirements (FRs) and non-functional requirements (NFRs), best practices for collecting them, and challenges in managing them.

Finally, the chapter presents an overview of techniques for documenting and managing requirements and explains how to design the architecture using the C4 model, which stands for context, container, component, and code. This ensures...