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Design and Architecture

Solution Architecture

Component, integration and deployment design owned by a named architect and recorded as decisions.

A named architect owns the technical shape of the solution and records the decisions that shaped it, so handover means something.

What you receive

  • Solution architecture document
  • Component and integration design
  • Non-functional requirements
  • Architecture decision records
  • Deployment topology

Why organisations ask for it

A design that can be built

Detailed enough to implement without reinterpretation.

Understandable later

Decisions recorded with context and consequences.

How the engagement runs

  1. Understand

    Requirements, constraints, existing estate and non-functional needs.

  2. Options

    Credible alternatives with trade-offs made explicit.

  3. Decide

    Recommendation with rationale, recorded as a decision record.

  4. Detail

    Component, data, integration and security design ready to build from.

Next step

Need solution architecture?

A short conversation establishes the scope, the prerequisites and whether this is genuinely the right place to start.

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