Architecture decisions are investment decisions
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In this lesson
treat large architecture choices as investments with costs, returns, and risks.
Planned topics
- Every major decision commits money and engineering time now for benefits later.
- Finance thinks in costs, returns, timing, and risk; translate your argument into those terms.
- Benefits can be revenue, cost avoided, risk reduced, or speed gained; state which.
- Not deciding is also a decision, with its own cost.
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Demonstration
a one-page template: decision, options, cost by year, benefit by year, risks, assumptions, and the cost of delay.
Check your understanding
What are four types of benefit an architecture investment can claim?
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Revenue, cost avoided, risk reduced, speed gained.
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