The purpose of this discipline is to evolve a robust architecture for the system.

The Architecture discipline is related to other disciplines, as follows:

• The Requirements discipline provides the architecturally significant requirements.
• The Development discipline designs and implements the architecture.
• The Test discipline verifies the stability and correctness of the architecture.
• The Project Management discipline plans the project, and each iteration.

Creating and applying architectural mechanisms is essential for creating a robust architecture. See more on architectural mechanisms at Architectural mechanisms.