Having a great idea or design is not enough to make your software project succeed. If you want stakeholders to buy into your design and teams to collaborate and contribute to the vision, you also need to communicate effectively. In this practical book, author Jacqui Read shows you how to successfully present your architecture and get stakeholders to jump on board. Misunderstanding and lack of buy-in leads to increasing costs, unmet requirements, and an architecture that is not what you intended. Through constructive examples and patterns, this book shows you how to create documentation and diagrams that actually get the message across to the different audiences you'll face. Software development and architecture have patterns and antipatterns that can be applied (or recognized) in writing code and architecting systems. A pattern is a reusable solution that has been shown to be effective when used to solve a problem. The biggest benefit is that someone else has done the hard work for you, and you just need to apply the solution to your particular situation and problem.