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Cheat Sheet #1: The Architecture Overview

 

An Architecture overview illustrates the central solution approaches of your software architecture - in compact form. Which ingredients are part of an Architecture overview?

Author of this Cheat Sheet
Stefan Zörner

Challenges

  • Team or project members (e.g. developers) lack a high-level-overview of solution approaches in order to work effectively.
  • New team members who want to participate in development are not able to find their way within the architecture.
  • Decision-makers and other stakeholders lost confidence or do not fully trust the solution.
  • Colleagues outside of the team are interested in solution approaches, but find no or only very detailed information that makes it difficult to provide a quick overview.

In this edition

  • Which ingredients are part of an Architecture overview?
  • Which forms prove successful in which situations?
  • How do you prepare an overview?

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