architecture-review-governance

Architecture review uses a 15-item self-review checklist to assess multi-service designs against defined principles. It validates non-functional requirements and captures decisions in Architecture Decision Records to identify drift and mitigate risk.

Architecture Decision Records capture architectural decisions during governance reviews. The review process generates ADRs to document design choices, ensuring reproducible evaluation against architecture principles and risk management constraints.

NFR validation verifies proposed architectures against defined non-functional requirements. The governance process checks NFRs during the design review to identify drift, validate constraints, and reduce costly rework before implementation.

Architecture governance is needed when evaluating design proposals to reduce drift and costly rework in the software development lifecycle. It provides structured evaluation against defined principles before implementation begins.

Architecture review applies governance to designs spanning external dependencies to identify drift and risk. The process assesses alignment with architecture principles and constraints across connected services and data stores.

The 15-item self-review checklist provides a reproducible process but relies on predefined architecture principles and constraints. It evaluates designs against existing definitions rather than generating new architecture principles.