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Architecture first 90 days
The document outlines an architect's priorities for their first 90 days on the job. In the first day, they should get settled in the office, connect with colleagues, and engage with other architects. In the first week, they should examine the company's brand, products, frameworks, budgets, and business strategies to understand the organization. In the first fortnight, they should build relationships with stakeholders, understand workflow and pain points, learn the company history, and build trust. In the first month, they should align systems and strategies, establish an architectural approach, understand business scope and culture, and build stakeholder relationships through assessments and modular planning.
Architecture first 90 days
- 1. ARCHITECTURE FIRST 90DAYS 1. FIRST DAY ☐ Get into the building and sort out email ☐ Find our who you need to connect with ☐ Engage with fellow architects ☐ Buy coffees 2. FIRST WEEK ☐ Examine brand and products ☐ Reasons for architecture ☐ What frameworks are being used ☐ How is ops running ☐ What is the budget for change ☐ Establish the appetite for change ☐ Establish the capacity for change ☐ Learn about the business: drivers and differentiators ☐ Strategies and objectives ☐ Company structure ☐ Build a list of people to meet with ☐ Who are the influencers? ☐ Listen ☐ Get someone to whiteboard it for you ☐ Build alliances ☐ Meet stakeholders – what do they want ☐ Begin diagramming ☐ Establish a common language ☐ Reflect ☐ Earn the right to give opinions ☐ Ask “why” 3. FIRST FORTNIGHT ☐ Stakeholder relationships ☐ Stakeholder workflow ☐ Business pain points ☐ Potted history and failures
- 2. Page 2 ☐ Dosomething useful ☐ Build trust ☐ Core business propositions ☐ Understand which events/ceremonies matter ☐ Align to strategy ☐ Make reflections, not judgments 4. FIRST MONTH ☐ Systems/strategy alignment ☐ Agree the way of doing architecture ☐ Set some direction ☐ Understand business/domain scope ☐ Understand the culture and capacity for change ☐ Build stakeholder relationships ☐ Organisational maturity assessment ☐ Make plans – break the big tasks up into modules ☐ Operational processes ☐ Fact-based conversations 5. FIRST 90 DAYS ☐ Opportunities backlog ☐ Get familiar with, and earn trust from teams ☐ Asset landscape ☐ Asset lifecycle model CC BY 4.0 2018 Produced with the assistance of the Enterprise & Solution Architecture AKL Meetup Group https://www.meetup.com/Enterprise-Solution-Architecture-AKL/