Enhance Your Solution Architecture Practices
Ensure your software systems solution is architected to reflect stakeholders’ short- and long-term needs.
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Omitting quality attributes and solely focusing on functionality in your application architecture design can lead to:
- Costly application and system changes due to the poor scalability and reusability of the application architecture.
- The application system being unable to support the increased load of service and data requests, which can drive down the system’s performance.
- Development teams focusing significant time and effort maintaining the application system, instead of working on new projects.
A high quality and valuable application architecture can enable you to:
- Capture stakeholder application and system needs while ensuring they can be sufficiently supported.
- Proactively prepare and enable development teams to easily accommodate changing stakeholder needs and business and technical environments.
- Develop insightful references that are pivotal in making and justifying application architecture decisions.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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The Purpose
- Document a vision statement for the solution architecture practice (in general) and/or a specific vision statement, if using a single project as an example.
- Document business architecture and capabilities.
- Decompose capabilities into use cases.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Provide a great foundation for an actionable vision and goals that people can align to.
- Develop a collaborative understanding of business capabilities.
- Develop a collaborative understanding of use cases and personas that are relevant for the business.
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| 1.1 | Develop vision statement. |
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| 1.2 | Document list of value stream maps and their associated use cases. |
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| 1.3 | Document architectural quality attributes needed for use cases using SRME. |
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Module 2: Continue Vision and Value Maps, Begin Phase 2
The Purpose
- Map value stream to required architectural attributes.
- Prioritize architecture decisions.
- Discuss and document data architecture.
Key Benefits Achieved
- An understanding of architectural attributes needed for value streams.
- Conceptual understanding of data architecture.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Map value stream to required architectural attributes. |
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| 2.2 | Prioritize architecture decisions. |
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| 2.3 | Discuss and document data architecture. |
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Module 3: Continue Phase 2, Begin Phase 3
The Purpose
- Discuss security and threat assessment.
- Discuss resolutions to threats via security architecture decisions.
- Discuss system’s scalability needs.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Decisions for security architecture.
- Decisions for scalability architecture.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Discuss security and threat assessment. |
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| 3.2 | Discuss resolutions to threats via security architecture decisions. |
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| 3.3 | Discuss system’s scalability needs. |
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Module 4: Continue Phase 3, Start and Finish Phase 4
The Purpose
- Discuss performance architecture.
- Compile all the architectural decisions into a solutions architecture list.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A complete solution architecture.
- A set of principles that will form the foundation of solution architecture practices.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Discuss performance architecture. |
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| 4.2 | Compile all the architectural decisions into a solutions architecture list. |
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