Architecture in practice

A useful starting point

When a training provider cancels a course, staff need to agree alternatives with learners and decide who will handle each case. The change may also affect information, software and recovery arrangements. Architecture connects those decisions. The method determines how people make, check and revisit them.

Architecture Portal helps architects compare and improve their existing approaches. Use the guidance to examine delivery speed, quality, support and the effort of change. Adapt its terms and records to the way your team works. The assessment guide separates the quality of the architecture from the performance of the method.

A framework and an example

A Simple Architectural Framework (ASAF) helps you examine the concerns a decision affects, the work involved and the description needed. The worked example follows a training provider from a process-only proposal to a possible later software service. It connects the decisions across the framework’s aspects.

The templates pair blank records with completed examples. The blueprint brings the service architecture together across the aspects, with named objects, diagrams and reusable records.

Learning from use

The fictional service’s proposed checks remain unrun. Working projects provide separate implementation examples with their own status and limitations. Experience of use, change and retirement will help test which architectural choices remain useful over time.