Fast estimation for scoping
During idea creation, it is not necessary to know the exact breath of a project – what business people really need to know is the magnitude of idea. Is it 10k, 500k or 2m? They can compare this estimate with the anticipated business benefits and decide whether the idea makes any sense or not.
From idea to rough specification
Disruptive ideas will never be too specific initially. Discussing and analyzing it for a while, will make it more concrete. A supportive enterprise architect can help to confine it within boundaries and provide business people new perspectives.
High-level plan and estimate
In response to the idea, enterprise architects can create a high-level solution design with the help of the EA knowledge base:
- Create a new proposed project in SAMU;
- Specify the modifications it should do on the architecture: mark components and dependencies it creates, modifies or removes;
- Verify the design with the idea owner;
Drop it out or work it out
High-level solution designs based on the actual complexity provides more realistic cost – benefit assessments. They empower business teams to better prioritize the ideas to achieve a competitive edge.
Collaborating over a single design built from the components of your enterprise architecture will ensure a common understanding of the required changes.
We have customers, who include the high-level designs in the requirement documents for tenders. Like this, tenderers will have the same solid architecture requirement information in a standard structure, which increases clarity and results in better quality proposals and solutions.
Continuous EA governance
High-level solution designs place the solution into an end-to-end architecture context. This is important not just for the initial decision making, but also lead to better decisions going forward:
- Emerging changes are evaluated quicker throughout the project – even more importantly in agile projects;
- It provides a clear-cut knowledge base of architecture dependencies to operations people, who will need to ensure availability 24×7 after go-live;
- Support in any internal or external audits, when you must prove compliance to data handling, business continuity or security;
- For any future projects that may build on the delivered solution.
Therefore, plans are never static: maintained by the project lead architect, they live together with the initiative.
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