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Decision Making & Governance

Are we following governance processes, managing risk and issues, communicating with our stakeholders? Are we managing technical debt? Do we have a framework in place to make decisions which is based are based on understanding need, options analysis, clear rationale, and management of trade-offs? Are we communicating those decisions?

DM01	Architectural Debt: Where a solution or part of solution is seen as tactical, short term or introduces / persist tech & architecture debt, remediations plans SHOULD be in place and agreed with the relevant stakeholders and governance groups. Architecture Debt MUST be identified with implications, rationale and future mitigations plans (recorded in the Architecture Debt Register) Plans MUST be realistic and funded.
DM02	Spend Control: Relevant spend control and associated CDDO & Service Design related guidance MUST be followed whilst developing the solution and MUST be evidenced for service design & spend control reviews
DM03	Risk Management: Architecture risks and issues MUST be managed effectively with the appropriate level of visibility and ownership
DM04	Stakeholder Involvement: There MUST be effective and commensurate stakeholder involvement with respects to solution design and architecture decisions.
DM05	Design Authorities: The solution design and architecture decisions MUST be managed effectively through local programme related design authorities and TRG processes at the appropriate stages of the lifecycle.
DM06	Architectural Governance: The overall approach to architecture governance MUST be appropriate and commensurate with the nature of the solution, engaging the appropriate Lead Architects and other SMEs.
DM07	Architectural Governance: All Architecture decisions MUST be documented with a lightweight Architecture Decision Record with options and clear rationale.
DM08	Structured Decision Making: All decision-making MUST be structured i.e. identify key strategic drivers, user need assess options against drivers, present rationale, clarity on trade-offs, dependencies, risks and issues understood etc.
DM09	Wider Decision Making: There SHOULD be an appropriate and functioning architecture decision making forum within the delivery team including other SMEs e.g. product, engineering etc.