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Nov 9 2008   8:01PM GMT

Application Standards Examples



Posted by: Anton Venter
Enterprise architecture

The organisation that I currently work for re-visited its application development standards recently. The approach used was to agree on the “Principles” that development should adhere to. From these principles some detailed Standards were then developed to guide the development of code. This detail might include some checklists that can be used to guide developers in the design of their code. But beware!! These checklists should not be applied only at the quality assurance gates (i.e. when code gets implemented in Production), but rather right at the start of code design, so that adherence is not an after-thought but becomes a way of life for project teams.

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Nov 9 2008   8:00PM GMT

Application Standards -Why?



Posted by: Anton Venter
Enterprise architecture

I recently showed examples of graphs that depict how an application might conform to standards. I consider the concept of conformance as an important part of an Application Architecture. Conformance is also a key element in the practice of Enterprise Architecture. If an organisation wants to progress from its current architecture to a future state, it has to govern the development projects that are run to ensure there is no deviation from the end goal. Even if it does not plan to be in a different place in future, it certainly wants to uphold certain standards for the sake of quality and managing risk to the business. The next few posts will discuss application standards.

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