Architecture Reviews and Roadmaps

Principle 4: Architecture Is Leadership

Architecture includes helping teams make decisions together. A diagram has little effect if the people implementing it do not share the priorities behind it.

An architecture decision affects the people who build, operate, and consume the system. Those groups may have different constraints that a diagram does not show.

Work through the trade-off with them. A decision that fits the operating team and business need is more useful than a technically elegant design nobody can sustain.

Work with the engineers and business owners who carry the consequences of a choice. Keep decisions connected to real constraints.