A3 Architecture Overviews

Borches, P. Daniel

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9849-8_8

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“…While these models are easily understandable and relate to the conceptual system design stage better because of abstract or functional reasoning, they have been developed as a as a modeling approach, but not as a communication tool. An approach that aims to support communication is the A3 Architecture Overview (A3AO) method [Borches, 2010]. However, the A3AO method focuses mainly on communicating the systems structure, and does not allow a user to explore the system's behavior.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The third option is to condense architecting information into a single and accessible overview. This is for example done in the A3 Architecture Overview method [Borches, 2010]. The combination of multiple views and support of visual aids allow all stakeholders to understand the system.…”

Section: Common Understanding Of Overall System Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While some of those are reflected in the challenges identified by [Torry-Smith et al, 2011], the second need mentions an interesting aspect, namely the desire to reduce irrelevant information while still delivering the right information. [Borches, 2010] applied this concept in the A3 Architecture Overview method, by restricting the presented information to two sides of an A3 paper.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The A3AO method as described by [Borches, 2010] uses this approach and has proven to be successful as a multidisciplinary communication tool in industry. When the A3AO method is compared to the views presented in section 3.3.4, the only view lacking to be able to communicate system behavior is the operational view.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In essence, to accommodate multiple disciplines, the use of multiple views is a feasible solution which has proven itself in the A3AO method [Borches, 2010]. Furthermore, the impact of design choices should be exemplified across the concerns of multiple stakeholders.…”

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Applying A3AO to Facilitate Future Working Processes in the Oil and Gas Industry

Wiulsrød,

Zhao,

Muller

2022

INCOSE International Symp

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Companies in the oil and gas industry strive to increase their performance in Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation projects. New responsibilities of the Company within this research, encounter unforeseen surprises in an early project phase called As‐Is Engineering. No prioritization for documenting and communicating working processes and key‐personnel dependency are the symptoms related to the Company's challenges. To cope with the Company's challenges, this research investigates the development of a process architecting tool to facilitate future working processes. Given a known method of A3 Architectural Overviews from Systems Engineering for communicating architectural knowledge, we applied it together with process mapping to develop a process architecting tool for the Company. Through literature review and workshop testing with loops of feedbacks in the Company, a process architecting tool ‐ Operational A3 is proposed. Results from surveys and interviews show the Operational A3 benefits the Company in terms of increased project performance.

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Managing Knowledge Transfer in Innovative Complex Systems Development: Case Study of Renewable Energy Project in the Oil and Gas Industry

Chen,

Zhao,

Kjenner

et al. 2023

INCOSE International Symp

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Many oil and gas companies are looking for new opportunities in the renewable energy market. New energy systems, especially those with subsea large‐scale hydrogen storage functions, have become an important part of the global energy transition. Oil and gas companies, like the case company, utilize experience and technologies from the subsea oil and gas sector to develop large‐scale hydrogen storage systems. In systems development, there is a need for efficient knowledge transfer from the current team to new stakeholders joining the team. To meet this need, this research investigates how to use A3 Architectural Overviews (A3AOs) to facilitate the efficient knowledge transfer between the current team and the future engineer team in the renewable energy project of the case company. Drawing from the system engineering methodology, we first identified key stakeholders and their needs and studied the current knowledge transfer situation. The solution based on A3AOs has been developed and optimized in this study. This final solution has been verified and validated by the testing workshop, survey, and expert evaluation.

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A3 Architecture Overviews

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Collective understanding of system behavior : incorporating simulations in conceptual systems design

Collective understanding of system behavior : incorporating simulations in conceptual systems design

Applying A3AO to Facilitate Future Working Processes in the Oil and Gas Industry

Managing Knowledge Transfer in Innovative Complex Systems Development: Case Study of Renewable Energy Project in the Oil and Gas Industry

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