Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method Leader

How do you know whether your system will achieve qualities that are important to your organization, such as performance, reliability, security, and maintainability? The quality of a system emanates in large part from its software architecture. Software architecture provides the most fundamental basis for communicating design decisions and reasoning about key system quality attributes.

The SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) is a proven method for evaluating software architectures. Government and industry organizations such as Aetna, BAE Systems, Boeing, Cisco, KPMG, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Nationwide, Raytheon, Robert Bosch GmbH, Siemens, U.S. Army and Unisys have used the ATAM for more than 10 years to expose architectural risks that threaten their ability to achieve their business goals.

As Rolf Siegers of Raytheon said in his keynote address at the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference, “The SEI in the software architecture arena is a pioneer and has been for more than a decade.”

SEI-Certified ATAM Leaders conduct SEI-authorized ATAM evaluations on behalf of SEI Partner organizations. An SEI-authorized ATAM evaluation is led by an SEI-Certified ATAM Leader whose team is made up of individuals who have received the SEI ATAM Evaluator certificate. SEI-Certified ATAM Leaders are experts in software architecture evaluation using the ATAM, which requires technical expertise in software architecture and quality attributes, a working knowledge of the ATAM, and strong facilitation skills. The five-course sequence and observation exercise that make up the ATAM Leader certification provide a qualified software professional with the technical depth and social techniques needed to lead an SEI-authorized ATAM.