What 4 tasks are included in Architecture Governance
- Controls for creation and monitoring architectures
- Ensure standards and regulatory compliance
- Processes to support management of processes
- Practices to ensure accountability to stakeholders
Governance should embody these 6 characteristics
- Discipline: Commitment to adhere and enforce
- Transparency: Viewable implementation/decisions
- Independence: Minimize conflict of interest
- Accountability: Groups accountable and authorized
- Responsibility: Parties responsible to stakeholders
- Fairness
List 6 key Architecture Governance processes
- Policy management and take-on
- Compliance
- Dispensation
- Monitoring/Reporting
- Business control
- Environment management
List 6 key components of architecture governance Content?
Architecture Governance Framework = Governance Process + Content + Process Flow Control
- Requirements
- SLAs and OLAs (operational)
- Authority structures
- Organizational standards
- Solutions
- Architectures
Why do you need an architecture board?
- Prevent one off solutions
- High costs
- Lower quality
- Higher Risk
- Difficulty in replicating and reusing
List the responsibilities of an Architecture Board?
- Consistency between architectures
- Reusability
- Flexibility
- Compliance
- Improve Maturity Level
- Adopt discipline of architecture
- Decision making basis
- Escalation capability
What is the role of an Architecture Contract?
- Continous monitoring system
- Adherence to principles, standards & requirements
- Risk identification
- Processes and practice to ensure RACI of architecture artifacts
- Understanding of Governance org, Authority and scope
6 levels of Architecture Compliance of impl to requirements
- Irrelevant: No features in common- Consistent: Some features impl, some missing, in common- Compliant: All impl compliant, some missing- Conformant: All impl compliant, some extra- Fully conformant: Exact match- Non-conformant: Some impl do no
What is the purposes of Architecture Compliance Reviews?
- Catch architecture errors early
- Reduce cost and risk of fixes, faster delivery
- Ensure best practices
- Overview of compliance with standards
- Identify where standards need modification
- Identify services that can be reused
- Document collaboration, resource sharing
- Take advances in Technology
- Technical readiness communication
- Procurement activities - Key critieria
- Architecture gaps communicate to providers
Describe the Architecture Compliance Review Process
- Request architecture review
- Identify responsible org
- Identify lead and architects
- Determine scope of review
- Tailor checklists
- Schedule review meeting
- Interview project participants
- Analyze completed
- Prepare Report
- Present findings
- Accept Review and sign off
- Summarize
How can you use the ADM to establish an Architecture Capability
- ADM cycle to architect/govern an Architecture Capability
- Establish an architecture practice iteratively
- Implement the capability in all 4 BDAT domains
What is the Architecture Capability Framework
- References and guidelines to establish Architecture Capability
- Run EA capability like an operational unit
Contents of the Architecture Capability Framework
- Establishing an Architecture Capability- Architecture Board- Architecture Compliance- Architecture Contracts- Architecture Givernance- Architecture Maturity models- Architecture skills framework
List some EA capabilities that are needed
- Financial management- Performance management- Service management- Risk management- Resource management- Communication, stakeholder management- Quality management- Supplier management- Configuration management- Environment management
Establishing an Operational Architecture Capability
- Run architecture as a business- Management capabilities in business areas- Well-defined + effective architectural governance
Purpose of Architecture contract
- Agreements between development and sponsors- Deliverables, quality, fitness of purpose- Produced in Phase G Architecture Governance
When would you setup an architecture board?
- New CIO - wants board
- M&A - differing architectures / consistency
- New forms of computing - high risk
- Competitive advantage - flexibility/reusability
- EA Program - why not
- Business change / rapid growth - flexibility
- Complex/Cross-functional solutions - reusability
What are the key success factors for Architecture Governance?
- Best Practices established
- Org responsibilities and structures established
- Tools and Processes integrated
- Criteria for control established
- Internal and external requirements created
