Tailorable architecture methods

In this paper we discuss a set of architecture-based methods for architecture design and analysis that have been developed over the past 10 years at the Software Engineering Institute. We then discuss the need for integrating these architecture-based methods, both with each other and into an organization´s system development life cycle, based on experience with NASA´s EOSDIS project. We discuss the framework for doing this integration, and present a life cycle view of architecture-based design and analysis methods.