This paper explores the commonalties of architecture and systems design, using the notion of open planning. The practice of open planning is explored as a way of preserving the strength and conceptual integrity of a design concept while at the same time keeping it open for evolving and changing requirements, and of interpreting and handling constraints in innovative ways. A small case of cooper...

Often software systems are developed by organizations consisting of many teams of individuals working together. Brooks states in the Mythical Man Month book that product quality is strongly affected by organization structure. Unfortunately there has been little empirical evidence to date to substantiate this assertion. In this paper we present a metric scheme to quantify organizational complexi...