Architecture Standards

Purpose

Architecture standards ensure that solutions are coherent, secure, maintainable, and aligned to customer requirements.

Architecture Artifacts

Projects should maintain:

• context diagram

• logical architecture

• physical architecture where required

• integration model

• data model

• security architecture

• deployment architecture

• architecture decision records

Architecture Decisions

Material architecture decisions must record:

• decision

• context

• options considered

• rationale

• consequences

• risks

• owner

• date

Architecture Review

Architecture should be reviewed:

• during discovery

• during alpha

• before beta build

• before live release

• after major change requests