Management

Questions for architecture

A cheat-sheet to help drive effective outcomes and facilitate inter-departmental communication.

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Business Questions

Please describe the high-level vision of the business proposal, the problems it solves and goals it supports.

What business benefits do you anticipate from your proposed architecture?

How do you propose to measure those benefits?

What are the risks and risk mitigation strategies to this architecture?

What changes should we make, at an organisational level, to support this project?

What are the priorities for delivery? Can this list form the basis of the Epics in an Agile environment?

How is this architecture future-proofed? How easy it is to adapt the architecture to changing business needs?

Application Questions

Can you describe the data and application architectures in your proposal?

Variants

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Delivery Practices

What is your plan for migrating from the current architecture to the proposed one?

How engaged is the implementation team?

How do you plan to govern the implementation of the architecture?

What is the plan for user acceptance testing?

Questions for Engineering Leadership

A cheat-sheet to help drive effective outcomes and facilitate inter-departmental communication.

Technology

Current Projects

Assessing Performance