Engineering and Technical Standards

Overview

Engineering work must be secure, maintainable, testable, and aligned to the agreed architecture.

Principles

• Build for the user need.

• Keep designs simple where possible.

• Prefer reusable patterns.

• Automate repeatable tasks.

• Make systems observable.

• Document important decisions.

• Build security in from the start.

• Test early and continuously.

• Review code before release.

• Manage technical debt deliberately.

Engineering Evidence

Engineering teams should maintain:

• architecture decision records

• repository documentation

• code review evidence

• test evidence

• deployment records

• release notes

• security review evidence