Application Architecture (as a subset of Solutions Architecture) provides a high level vision of Enterprise Solutions and development initiatives applying lean and Systems Thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

More Uses of the Solutions Architecture Toolkit:


• Standardize: effectively communicate Solutions Architecture to the customer, third parties and the Project Teams.
  
  

• Formulate: work closely with Solutions Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Integration Architecture and Business Architecture to create an Enterprise Architecture approach for solving short term and long term Strategic Initiatives.
  
  

• Coordinate, review, and integrate the deliverables of Information And Technology architects into cohesive Solutions Architectures.
  
  

• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fIT Systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the Solutions Architecture.
  
  

• Head: conduct Solutions Architecture Review/audit and create review/audit report.
  
  

• Confirm your organization complies; Solutions Architecture develops a direction for managing the portfolio of to be solutions.
  
  

• Be accountable for documenting key design decisions and Solutions Architecture.
  
  

• Be accountable for defining, implementing, documenting, and maintaining the Solutions Architecture roadmap, designs, procedures, standards, and metrics; and ensuring compliance and conformity of Software Architecture and technology standards.
  
  

• Ensure you participate; understand Customer Requirements and advise Project Team on highly specialized, complex Solutions Architecture and implementation.
  
  

• Establish that your corporation participates in segment (Line Of Business) and Solutions Architecture where needed.
  
  

• Establish: conduct Requirements Analysis, determine Solutions Architecture options, and lead software and Application Design activities.
  
  

• Warrant that your enterprise complies; solutions architects provide the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to the development of an enterprises Solutions Architecture.
  
  

• Ensure suitable regularity of Mobile Solutions, structures and Solutions Architecture across multiple projects, as applicable.
  
  

• Oversee: ultimate accountability for Infrastructure Solutions Architecture enterprise wide, ensuring appropriate standards and processes are developed, established, and followed.
  
  

• Ensure you foster; based Solutions Architecture leader for your enterprise business.
  
  

• Ensure you guide; lead Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Integration Architecture, Security Architecture, and Solutions Architecture.
  
  

• Make sure that your corporation complies; Solutions Architecture, Data Science, business and technical Requirements Analysis, Project Management, Software Development etc.
  
  

• Be accountable for building, managing, and developing Operations and Supply Chain Process and Solutions Architecture across Deliver (logistics, warehousing, transportation, fulfilment, Customer Service and returns).
  
  

• Be accountable for improving, continually, the Solutions Architecture process or Code Development efficiency through Effective Leadership, individual and group training, and Process Improvement.
  
  

• Warrant that your enterprise complies; designs and directs the Data Governance activities associated with ensuring Solutions Architecture assurance and compliance.
  
  

• Contribute to design of a Solutions Architecture for identified medium complexity projects or domain research efforts, or projects based on enterprise Business Strategy, business capabilities and business requirements; obtain Peer Review for feedback and consensus.
  
  

• Methodize: Solution Architects provide the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of an enterprises Solutions Architecture.
  
  

• Secure that your design complies; Solutions Architecture, applications Portfolio management.
  
  

• Ensure you charter; lead evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a Solutions Architecture across a group of specific Business Applications and technologies.
  
  

• Ensure you lead; leAd Cloud Solutions Architecture.
  
  

• Formulate: design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring Solutions Architecture assurance and compliance.
  
  

• Be accountable for defining and designing the IT Solutions Architecture.
  
  

• Arrange that your business complies; operations Program Management Solutions Architecture.
  
  


Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Solutions Architecture Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Solutions Architecture related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Solutions Architecture specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Solutions Architecture Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Solutions Architecture improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Who should resolve the Solutions Architecture issues?
   
   

2. How do you improve Solutions Architecture service perception, and satisfaction?
   
   

3. Have specific policy objectives been defined?
   
   

4. Why not do Solutions Architecture?
   
   

5. What are the success criteria that will indicate that Solutions Architecture objectives have been met and the benefits delivered?
   
   

6. How are costs allocated?
   
   

7. Do you have an issue in getting priority?
   
   

8. Are losses recognized in a timely manner?
   
   

9. What are your current levels and trends in key measures or indicators of workforce and leader development?
   
   

10. How do you measure progress and evaluate training effectiveness?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Solutions Architecture book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Solutions Architecture self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Solutions Architecture Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Solutions Architecture areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Solutions Architecture Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Solutions Architecture projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Solutions Architecture Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Solutions Architecture project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Solutions Architecture project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the Solutions Architecture Project Team have enough people to execute the Solutions Architecture Project Plan?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Solutions Architecture Project Plan (variances)?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?


 
Step-by-step and complete Solutions Architecture Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Solutions Architecture project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Solutions Architecture Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Solutions Architecture Project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Solutions Architecture project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Solutions Architecture project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Solutions Architecture project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Solutions Architecture project with this in-depth Solutions Architecture Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Solutions Architecture projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Solutions Architecture and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Solutions Architecture investments work better.

This Solutions Architecture All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.