{"id":25022,"date":"2019-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583806-4798031.cloudwaysapps.com\/6-things-ai-and-machine-learning-reshape-in-sw\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:21:54","slug":"6-things-ai-and-machine-learning-reshape-in-sw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informator.se\/en\/6-things-ai-and-machine-learning-reshape-in-sw\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things AI and Machine Learning Reshape in SW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In my recent post<\/a>, I mentioned that AI and ML challenge architecture, but also offer tools to tackle the challenges. Needless to say, automation of repetitive tasks will change our job descriptions, just like those of our end users.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

The SW development lifecycle is changing too. Architects with experience from an environment with external content prosumers or open-source developers, will find some lifecycle changes similar to those two environments.<\/span><\/div>\n
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1. Crowd management<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n
Much of the \u201ccrowd\u201d involved is outside the IT organization (e.g. experts in domains other than IT), or even outside the enterprise – not least in Data as a Service offering ML from data sources such as digital twins (of customer-owned equipment, e.g. railroads and trains at Siemens, networks at Ericsson, or farming machinery at John Deere). Architects or CIOs have influence rather than full control, unlike in internal projects.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2. Crowdsourcing<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n
Both the data and some ML-generated logic come from external sources, not least when some ML and computing runs locally on \u201cedge\u201d devices that produce the input data.<\/span><\/div>\n
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3. Adaptive planning<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n
Distinct project phases tend to disappear, partly because of the \u201ccrowd\u201d out there, partly because of the explorative nature of ML (\u201cthink more like a researcher, less like a programmer\u201d). For example, a partial result of an ML project can hint about additional key domains to drill into, thus widening the scope and postponing the deadline.<\/span><\/div>\n
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4. Incomplete requirements<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n
Customers may have a rather sketchy idea of what they want. \u201cMore bang for the buck\u201d wouldn\u2019t hint on \u201cincreased harvest, better soils, 80 percent less herbicides due to spraying individual weed plants only\u201d, but ML with fast pattern recognition (in RT field images) does exactly that.<\/span><\/div>\n

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5. Widened job roles<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n
Apart from the SW (development) lifecycle and the nature of new apps, AI reshapes the way they\u2019re developed and thus our roles too. Architects and some devs become even curators of training data sets, co-analysts of ML results, and a guide for experts from non-IT domains, to enable them to apply ML in their specific tasks.<\/span><\/div>\n

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6.<\/span><\/b> A hard core (platform)<\/b> <\/span><\/h3>\n
The core (e.g. an automated data\/ML platform) has to be secure, robust, modular, reliable (fault-tolerant, even on external error), documented and teachable to teams within the enterprise. The ML-generated system has to interoperate with other, programmer-made, systems (pre-ML AI, and other SW). The ML-generated logic has to be auditable and verifiable; indeed, explainability<\/span><\/a> is the door to acceptance in mission-critical apps.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Milan Kratochvil\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\r\nTrainer at Informator, senior modeling and architecture consultant at Kiseldalen.com, main author : UML Extra Light (Cambridge University Press) and Growing Modular (Springer), Advanced UML2 Professional (OCUP<\/a> cert level 3\/3).<\/em>\n\nMilan\u00a0and Informator collaborate since 1996 on architecture, modelling, UML, requirements, rules, and design. You can meet\u00a0him this Spring at public courses (<\/em>in English or Swedish) on AI, Architecture, and Machine Learning, Architecture or Modeling.<\/em><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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