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Building a system that is functional and resilient to change can
be challenging. For many established disciplines, knowledge
and techniques have been developed to build something to
achieve a design goal. Architects do this for houses and other
structures. Engineers do this for a variety of systems, both
physical and electronic. The challenge comes when trying to
design a system that not only achieves a goal, but is also
adaptable to accomplishing new goals in the future or the same
goal in a different environment or context. This requires
thinking beyond the standard design process for the current
goal, environment, and available technology. This paper
describes an approach to build a system for both today and
tomorrow. The methods in this paper are applicable when 1)
there is a defined goal, 2) accomplishing the goal requires a
substantial up-front investment in planning and resources, and
3) the goal or its context or environment are likely to change
over time. This approach is applied to the specific case of the
Enterprise Level Security (ELS) system, which is an
architecture for a secure enterprise to share information. The
benefits for ELS included improved security, cost savings, and
improved vendor interactions.
