Tag: security

Compliance

Dispensation

Monitoring and Reporting

Budgetary Control

Business Control

High cost of development

High cost of support

Lower quality

Numerous runtime environments

All of these

accepted accounting practices

marketing strategies

procurement policies

architecture principles

Governing board

Chief architect

All of these actors are involved

Business stakeholders

CIO/CTO

The principle is popular with IT management.

The principle promotes alignment of IT strategies with business strategies and visions.

The principle provides a high degree of control to IT management.

The principle assures compliance by the business units.

The principle assures uniform compliance to IT mandates.

Reduction of Costs

Consolidation of services

Ability to handle change

A goal to have minimum of interim solutions

All of the above

A building block is a package of functionality defined to meet the business needs

A building block has published interfaces to access the functionality

A building block may be assembled from other building block

A building block may have multiple implementations

All of the above

It is a virtual repository of all known architecture assets and artefacts in the IT industry

It is a virtual repository of all architecture assets and artefacts which the enterprise is considering in its own architecture project

It provides a taxonomy for classifying architecture assets

It is an important aid to communication for architects on both the buy and supply side

It is an aid to organisation of re-usable and solution assets

Undertaking compliance assessments against SLAs

Architecture implementation

Granting dispensations

Business Control to ensure compliance with Business policies

Identifying re-usable components

Consistency between sub-architectures

The production of usable governance material and activities

All of the above

B & C only