Compliance Assessment

Purpose

Once an architecture has been defined, it is necessary to govern that architecture through implementation to ensure that the original Architecture Vision is appropriately realized and that any implementation learnings are fed back into the architecture process. Periodic compliance reviews of implementation projects provide a mechanism to review project progress and ensure that the design and implementation is proceeding in line with the strategic and architectural objectives.

Content

Content
Typical contents of a Compliance Assessment are:

• Overview of project progress and status
• Overview of project architecture/design
• Completed architecture checklists:
  • Hardware and operating system checklist
  • Software services and middleware checklist
  • Applications checklists
  • Information management checklists
  • Security checklists
  • System management checklists
  • System engineering checklists
  • Methods and tools checklists