Governance
The goal of architecture governance
is to ensure that the
designs that we create and the
solutions that we build and implement are aligned with our
architecture direction and therefore help us implement our wider
business and technical strategies. When we follow architecture governance, the
quality it ensures in our design and build process will help us to:
Drive
systems rationalisation
Reduce unnecessary duplication and
increase re-use
Reduce costs
Provide opportunities to bid
for work that we are not in the position to do at the moment.
Architecture governance also
encourages best practice and decision making in the right place.
With many people making decisions in design and development
it is vital that we have a consistent view of what conformance
means, or put another way, a common view of what we mean by good
design and good design practice.
Recording architecture alignment
and the level of conformance enables us to identify how well
we are implementing our architecture strategy and are using our
change resources and capital to transform our organisation
efficiently and effectively.
The process that reviews each new or changed solution developed
through our change projects ensuring that they conform to our
context, directives and architecture views. teams to address
architecture issues in-line as they arise with support available
from domain and enterprise architects when needed. Projects will
only be allowed to progress to the detailed design and build stage
once they have been architecturally reviewed and proved to be
conformant or to be been given a dispensation.
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Item |
Name |
Details |
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01 |
Roadmap
conformance process |
The process that reviews changes to our roadmaps ensuring
that they conform to each relevant architecture and are
consistent with our other roadmaps. |
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02 |
Solution conformance process |
The process that reviews each new or changed solution
developed through our change projects ensuring that they
conform to our context, directives and architecture views.
teams to address architecture issues in-line as they arise
with support available from domain and enterprise architects
when needed. Projects will only be allowed to progress to
the detailed design and build stage once they have been
architecturally reviewed and proved to be conformant or to
be been given a dispensation |
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03 |
Audit process |
The process identifies sample projects to review and
carries out a set of investigations to test conformance to
the expected directives and processes. |
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