2-5 presale calls with tech leads, superficial examination of the project.
Deliverables: Suggestions on the overall expediency of the project, price and timeframe assessment
Duration: ~1 week
2. Discovery Phase
Deep dive into the project, industry analysis, specifications development.
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Architectural Analysis (AA) defines the problems an architecture must solve. The outcome of this activity is a set of architecturally significant requirements (ASRs).
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Architectural Synthesis (AS) proposes candidate architecture solutions to address the ASRs collected in AA, thus this activity moves from the problem to the solution space.
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Architectural Evaluation (AE) ensures that the architectural design decisions made are the right ones, and the candidate architectural solutions proposed in AS are measured against the ASRs collected in AA.
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Architectural Implementation (AI) realizes the architecture by creating a detailed design.
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Architectural Maintenance and Evolution (AME) is to change an architecture for the purpose of fixing faults and architectural evolution is to respond to new requirements at the architectural level