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5 questions in Organisational Constraints.

  1. Organisational Constraints advanced

    An architect proposes a design requiring three teams to coordinate on every release. The organisation will not restructure. What are the options?

    2 min answer organisational-constraintsconways-lawboundariescoordination
  2. Organisational Constraints intermediate

    Every change to a cross-team interface must be approved by an architecture forum that meets weekly with six 20-minute slots. About 14 requests arrive each week. Over the next two quarters, what happens to the queue and — more importantly — what happens to the designs themselves?

    3 min answer decision latencygovernancequeueingover-design
  3. Organisational Constraints intermediate

    In February 2020 SAP announced mainstream maintenance for the core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 through to the end of 2027, with optional extended maintenance at a premium to the end of 2030, alongside a maintenance commitment for SAP S/4HANA to 2040. A manufacturer running that stack has roughly 700 custom modifications to standard objects in its ERP core. What kind of architectural constraint is a vendor maintenance date, what should it change about the plan and where would copying the obvious response be a mistake?

    2 min answer saperpvendor-lifecyclemodernisation
  4. Organisational Constraints advanced

    Which organisational facts would make you reject a technically sound microservices design?

    2 min answer conways-lawconstraintscognitive-loadoperating-model
  5. Organisational Constraints beginner Multiple choice

    You are designing a new order-management service for a mid-size retailer. Four facts about the organisation come up in the first week. Which one changes what you are allowed to design, as opposed to merely making the work slower or less pleasant?

    3 min answer organisational constraintson-calloperabilitydesign drivers