Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop plan to support architectural design process
- Prepare a plan with techniques to support the architectural design process and communicate the solution to different stakeholder groups
- Critically analyse business options to support architectural design trade-offs for optimal design solution
- Evaluate strengths and weaknesses of relevant technologies in context of the requirement
- Assess a range of interdisciplinary concept ideas and effect their attributes would have on the design requirements
- Prepare a solutions architecture plan detailing all possible solutions
- Develop interface requirements for effective solutions across multiple architectures
- Evaluate system element interfaces and sources of complexity for interface management of the system across multiple architectures
- Develop a process and appropriate techniques to be adopted for interface management of system elements for solution architecture
- Produce a control process of system element interfaces of the management system
- Liaise and arbitrate between stakeholders where there are conflicts in definition of interfaces
- Manage solution architecture systems integration
- Evaluate suitability of system integration, verification and validation plans for solution architecture from requirements
- Develop systems integration, verification and validation plans for complex systems to ensure viable integration process
- Manage system integration plan and diagnose complex faults
- Document fault conditions, report to appropriate person and follow up corrective actions
- Prepare evidence for customer acceptance and certification of system integration management plan
- Plan and manage a transition to operational activity for the solution architecture
- Manage solution implementation and notify stakeholder groups
- Produce final project management requirements against solution architecture plan and notify stakeholder groups of impending implementation
- Evaluate impact of proposed project solutions on customers and enterprise
- Manage solution architecture activities as part of overall project plan and monitor solution architecture risks
- Manage amendments to solution architecture processes to meet needs of the project and apply necessary corrective actions