All IT organizations experience pressures based on past, current and projected technical choices in their environment. This can include:
1) Products and application code at various versions with at different levels of supportability and understandability
2) Performance limitations of various products or code needed and projected functional and non-functional needs of the IT organization.
3) Friction level of technical designs, code and products for transition capability, removal, integration capability and enhancement capability
It is important to understand these technical pressures and how they impact a specific initiative. Furthermore, it’s important to understand the impact of architecture design choices on these technical pressures (increasing or decreasing).
Perspective Capture Questions: Technical Pressures Area
a) What are the technical pressures of the current IT Environment?
i. Products and application code at various versions with at different levels of supportability and understandability
ii. Performance limitations of various products or code needed and projected functional and non-functional needs of the IT organization.
iii. Friction level of technical designs, code and products for transition capability, removal, integration capability and enhancement capability