Local Autonomy

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: lexicon:local-autonomy

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which enforcing architectural consistency limits individual teams' freedom to make local choices.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Legacy Constraints and before Local Optimization.

Category

• Architecture Review Evolution Governance

In tension with

• Architectural Consistency
• Architectural Consistency / Local Autonomy

Linked from

• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• The resolutions