Architecture Framework – Conceptual Architecture Best Practices

The need for an architecture framework will be elaborated upon in this chapter. The framework is documented as a three-level conceptual, logical, and physical architecture, which is needed to clearly communicate the intended state of an IT solution. These levels consist of blueprints. There will be a clear focus on the conceptual architecture level in the chapter and, with it, the best practices for its definition as a current state artifact, as well as important considerations regarding best practices for its content. You may ask: What’s in a conceptual architecture? The answer is: the document that contains a human-readable conceptual rendering of the solution that is used to level-set the business on the IT solutions’ capabilities and promote dialogue. High-level capabilities are part of the entities depicted in the conceptual architecture. These are conceptually knitted together with dataflows...