BREDEMEYER CONSULTING

Early, and along the way, architecture: establishes (the technical underpinning of) system identity and (technical design) focus, and sets priorities, direction and context; identifies driving forces, and (internal) capabilities the system needs to have to deliver user-visible capabilities, with (more the) properties users, our business, devs and ops care about. Architecture is design, but it is those aspects of design that need to be done at the system level, to achieve significant (make or break) system outcomes. It addresses cross-cutting concerns, and resolves trade-offs that impact various stakeholders, so that decisions need that system perspective and purview... Another way to get a change of perspective, is to get another person's perspective. Invite peers working on other systems, say, to share what's been learned and seek out opportunities and weaknesses, things we missed. Our team can miss the gorilla, so to speak, when our attention is focused on the design issues of the..

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