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Architecture Review Boards

Thresholds, early engagement and a real route to accept deviation.

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  1. intermediate

    An architecture review board reviews everything and has a six-week queue. What should it stop reviewing, and how should the triggers be defined?

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  2. intermediate

    An architecture review board with a six-week queue is changed overnight: its approval becomes advisory, and teams may proceed without it. What happens over the following six months?

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  3. advanced

    A review board rejected a team's design in week 3 and required it to use the shared notification service instead. 14 months later that shared service's queue backed up for 4 hours during a marketing send; payment confirmations went with it, because they travelled the same path. The board's decision record names the mandate, the date and the attendees, and nothing else. What failed, and which governance decision made the outage possible?

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  4. advanced

    You inherit an architecture review board with a six-week queue and a poor reputation with engineering. What do you change first?

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Terminology

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Advisory Review Model

Running architecture review as a consulting service that improves designs rather than as an approval gate that permits them.

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Significance Trigger

A pre-defined, published condition that requires architectural review - so that governance covers what matters and does not become a queue in front o…
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