#Architecture program conceptual diagram free#

Once of the showcase activities was a design challenge. They have a new stem program that teaches critical thinking. Last weekend I attended a school event with my daughter. Why can’t I turn the physical over to the implementers? … You can but they may not benefit from the exercise you did going through conceptual and logical. Logical is about connections, communication and figuring out the scope of the problem while providing the how does the solution work.īecause without physical it will not work. It is possible that you do have product limits due to constraints but they should not limit the logical design too much. You should design to meet the customers requirements not the products limitations. Why does the logical not have product names? Because you should not choose products until you get to physical design. Do I need a database? Do I need redundancy? How do I create redundancy? etc… Get the logical on paper and it will get you thinking about the things you missed. It is critical because it get’s you thinking about everything required to complete the solution.

Logical is created the start to show interactions between components. It should show all their requirements and get their sign off before you pass to logical. When combined with requirements and constraints the conceptual design allows you to design as you please with the blessing of the business unit.

#Architecture program conceptual diagram free#

This would seem like a waste of time for technical folks who say I know what it does… This is a failure to understand that the conceptual design is your get out of jail free card. No products or technical details just business. They should show what the solution should do. Physical – Detailed description of solution with products and interactionsĬonceptual takes business requirements and translates them into something consumable by the business and technical folks.Logical – Should interconnect between elements without specific products – defines how they should do it – if you have product names on the logical design you might not be doing it correctly.Conceptual – Explanation of what the solution should do in terms that your non-technical significant other can understand – In my case my wife had to understand what the solution should do by this design.I personally like one line answers so let me give you mine: This is referenced in every Datacenter design test by VMware and is by far the best description. The best definition of each layer is the article by Zachman here.

Product names, commands and hardware configuration are the realm of most systems engineers. It’s 100% details in order to get the work complete. Every systems engineer lives in the physical world. One common challenge faced by almost all systems engineers switching to architecture is the concept of conceptual, logical and physical diagrams and design. This has allowed me to meet some very talented people and learn from them as much as they may learn from me. I have also have the pleasure of mentoring other VCDX candidates. I am a VCDX certified person but really all that does is validate my ability to design systems architecture. While I appreciate using that tag on my posts gets me 40% more hits it would like to focus on the larger concepts of systems architecture. There have been a number of articles of late on systems architecture all with the tag VCDX.