Documenting your high-level approach

"In documenting your architecture, you need to have the consumer in mind. I don't mean end customers here—I mean the intended audience for the documentation itself. The CEO needs a different level of understanding about the architecture than a system administrator. The right way to approach this is to figure out what is the most useful format of the documentation for the audiences in the organization that need to consume it. To do this, you need to understand why they need it, how they will use it, and what their goals and interests are."

– Ted Ipsen, President and COO Positroniq, LLC

As we mentioned previously, in this section, we'll be putting together the initial documentation that will guide our work. We'll be creating this in two stages:

• Phase 1: A high-level roadmap, which provides an abstract, business-facing view of the design.
• Phase 2: An architecture definition, which provides a...