Architecture Review

Kind: activity

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: architecture:architecture-review

Severity: recommended

Scope: system, component, design change

Canonical: Ontology

The activity of examining a structural change against the architecture's criteria and recorded decisions before it is accepted.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Assessment and before Design Review.

Requires

• Architecture Criteria
• Architecture Decision Records (ADR)

Reinforces

• Architectural Consistency

Enables

• Risk Detection

Conflicts with

• Unreviewed Structural Change

In tension with

• Delivery Speed

Tensions

• Architecture Review / Delivery Speed

Violated by

• Unreviewed Structural Change

Refactored by

• Code Review
• Automated Enforcement

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts

Refactors

• Feature-Only Design

Reinforced by

• Quality Attributes

Linked from

• A cell that resists an invariant
• Anti-patterns
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Core Modular Design
• Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety
• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Core Vocabulary
• Severity levels
• The resolutions