Gap Analysis

Kind: activity

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: architecture:gap-analysis

Severity: contextual

Scope: compliance, architecture, capability

Canonical: Ontology

The activity of comparing the current state of a system with its target state and listing each difference.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Impact Analysis and before Fitness Functions.

Requires

• Target State
• Current State

Reinforces

• Governance

Enables

• Remediation Planning

Conflicts with

• Undefined Target

In tension with

• Time Cost

Tensions

• Gap Analysis / Time Cost

Violated by

• Undefined Target

Refactored by

• Mitigation Plan

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts

Refactors

• Reference Architecture

Linked from

• A cell that resists an invariant
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Core Vocabulary
• Severity levels
• The resolutions