The introduction of a new process (way of working) is quite often implemented by supplying ready-to-go tools and templates. This implementation mainly serves the purpose of a smooth introduction of the new process. Unfortunately the benefits of templates are often cancelled by unforeseen side-effects, such as unintended application, inflexibility, and so on. This intermezzo gives hints to avoid the Template Trap, so that templates can be used more effectively to support introduction of new processes.

The creation of a Product Family is an alternation of decomposition and synthesis steps. Composable architectures emphasize the composition of products, decreasing the importance of a priori decomposition. The products and intermediate compositions can be viewed as recursive aggregation levels. Careful tradeoffs are required between the size of an aggregation level and the way it will be deployed. Flexibility and (configuration) manageability amongst others are balanced.

This book bundles the course descriptions of courses based on the Gaudi systems architecting material. The courses address systems architecting, stakeholders and requirements engineering.

Composable architectures are used to create product families and individual products of a product family. This book bundles articles addressing several concerns and approaches with respect to composing products in a composable architecture.