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Including architecture-centric design and analysis methods in the Extreme Programming framework can help software developers address quality attributes in an explicit, methodical, engineering-principled way. Properly managed, architecture-centric methods can be a cost-effective addition to the software development process and will increase system and product quality.This article is part of a focus section on software architecture.

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Employment prospects for software developers are looking up. There’s a greater number of developer positions globally than there are qualified software engineers to fill them. This gap will continue to increase as the number of available jobs increases. Meanwhile, remaining fears on the part of some parents and students about IT job security after the dot-com fallout--while unwarranted--are negatively affecting software engineering enrollments, which will also temporarily widen the gap. In addition, fears surrounding outsourced SE jobs might be unfounded, as these are often lower-level positions in which software engineers wouldn’t be interested.Also, obituaries for John Vlissides and James E. Tomayko are included