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System architecture health check

Evaluate your system architecture for scalability, maintainability, and alignment

Conduct a comprehensive review of your system architecture to identify strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. This activity helps ensure your technical foundation supports business goals.

60 minutes
analysis

Overview

Conduct a comprehensive review of your system architecture to identify strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. This activity helps ensure your technical foundation supports business goals.

Learning objectives

  • Assess architecture against best practices
  • Identify technical risks and bottlenecks
  • Create architecture improvement roadmap

Instructions

Review system architecture:

1. Document current architecture components 2. Evaluate against quality attributes (scalability, security, etc.) 3. Identify architectural debt and risks 4. Assess alignment with business needs 5. Create prioritized improvement plan

Steps

1

Architecture documentation

25 minutes

Map current system components

2

Quality assessment

20 minutes

Evaluate against best practices

3

Improvement planning

15 minutes

Prioritize architectural changes

Pro tips

  • Include both technical and business perspectives
  • Consider future growth scenarios
  • Document assumptions and constraints

Example outcome

An architecture assessment report with risk heat map and prioritized improvement backlog

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