Architecture Thinking

Involve Your Key Stakeholders

Identify whom to work and align with while exploring and defining use cases and the architecture of your aspired solution with a stakeholder map and stakeholder matrix.

Identify the Scope of Your Architecture

Define the scope and the business rationale of your innovation project and its architecture with the Statement of Architecture Work template.

Define Architecture Principles

Set constraints and guidelines to develop the architecture

Perform Risk Analysis – Guide (PDF)

Solution Context Diagram – Guide (PDF)

Describe the Baseline Solution Architecture – Guide (PDF)

Create a Use Case Blueprint Diagram

Pivot from Design Thinking to Architectural Thinking by mapping user actions to architectural requirements.

Make a List of the Architectural Decisions

Document your architectural decisions and reasoning