29 docs tagged with "governance"

Organize ADRs and track impacts across codebase

Ensure rigor and completeness in architecture reviews

Template for documenting architecture decisions including context, rationale, consequences, and alternatives. Enables searchable decision history and informed future decisions.

Establish clear principles and standards that guide decisions while allowing team autonomy and innovation.

Comprehensive architecture review guide covering quality attributes assessment, risk identification, operational readiness, technology fitness evaluation, and team capability assessment.

How to tell architecture decisions from design and implementation, with cues, examples, and a flow.

Design systems that can demonstrate compliance and security through comprehensive logging and tracing.

Guide teams through major architectural changes using proven change management techniques.

TL;DR

Align team structure to system architecture: organizations produce designs reflecting their communication structure.

Ensure data integrity, track lineage, and maintain data governance

Manage where data physically resides and who can access it, respecting legal boundaries and customer requirements.

Maintain consistency and freshness of architecture diagrams

Define strategic direction, establish standards, and ensure architectural coherence across the entire organization.

Create a lightweight process for justified deviations from standards without compromising overall coherence.

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Use log levels strategically, enforce consistency across teams, and optimize storage costs while maintaining debuggability.

Enforce infrastructure standards and security policies automatically; prevent non-compliant deployments.

Ensure architectural decisions support product goals and vice versa, avoiding misalignment that harms both.

Control flow of changes through environments; approve releases with appropriate rigor.

Navigate the landscape of regulatory requirements and ensure architectural decisions support compliance.

Conduct effective architectural reviews that catch risks early without becoming approval bottlenecks.

Specialize in cross-cutting concerns: security posture, data governance, and platform reliability.

TL;DR

Design coherent systems within organizational constraints, balancing business goals with technical feasibility.

Identify stakeholders, elicit their concerns, and reconcile trade-offs into architecture decisions

Guide team-level technical decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure architectural patterns are applied correctly.

Manage technology lifecycle from adoption through deprecation with clear timelines and migration paths.

High-impact, hard-to-reverse decisions that shape system structure, qualities, and evolution.