Architecture Management Discussion Points

Describe a minimal set of key scenarios, with clear business goals, to guide the process.

For example:

• Analyze and implement system functionality defined by a requirements set
• Implement business process model
• Track and fix a defect in a build
• Impact Analysis
• Generate artifacts (runtime or intermediary) from models (ala MDD/MDA)

Document the key artifacts and resources that are managed in AM, include uses and connections to other resources both within and without of the AM space.

For example:

• Business Process Models (BPMN)
• Analysis / Design Models (UML)
• Deployment Models
• Logical/Physical Data Models (ER)
• Requirements Models (UML Use Cases)
• Source Code, deployment descriptors, etc.

Gain a consensus of understanding of the essential properties of models and other AM artifacts in the lifecycle.

For example

• Does a model element have to exist in a particular hierarchy for its information to be understood (i.e. UML Class and applied profiles)?
• A simplified logical view of a generic model and model element:
  

Draft specifications for use in ALM.

For example:

• RESTful resource access (get contents of model resource)
• model resource meta-information (version, links, labels, type, ownership hierarchy)
• find/create model links to ALM resources
• support querying, including cross resource queries.

-- JimConallen - 17 Jul 2009