Greenfield Development

Kind: model

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: architecture:greenfield-development

Severity: contextual

Scope: new codebase, system

Canonical: Ontology

An abstraction of building a new system with no inherited code, so its boundaries are designed from the current forces.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Minimum Viable Architecture and before First-Principles Design.

Requires

• First-Principles Design

Reinforces

• Architecture Foundation

Enables

• Clean Boundary Design

In tension with

• Unknown Requirements
• Legacy Constraints

Tensions

• Greenfield Development / Unknown Requirements
• Greenfield Development / Legacy Constraints

Violated by

• Big-Upfront Frozen Architecture

Refactored by

• Define Module Boundaries
• Decision Record with Alternatives

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts

Linked from

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Architecture Review Evolution Governance
• Core Modular Design
• Severity levels
• The resolutions