Solution Architecture Assessment Checklist

Functional Assessment

Identify business domains and their revenue impact:

Business Domains
├── Frontend functional areas
├── Regional/country-specific features
└── Backoffice & BI/Reporting

Document:

• User requests the system cannot currently fulfill
• Manual tasks requiring automation
• Pain points from both end users and employees

Non-Functional Assessment

Current vs required vs critical thresholds:

• Availability
• Reliability
• Performance
• Security

Key metrics:

• Concurrent users
• Request volume
• Identified bottlenecks
• Tech team pain points

Modules and Components

Modules (code organization):

repos/
├── applications/
└── packages/
    └── dependencies

Components (runtime):

Runtime Environment
├── Services
├── Databases
├── Queues
└── 3rd party services

Document hosting model for each: on-premise, Azure PaaS, containers.

Identity Management:

• B2C flows
• Corporate authentication

Multi-region/i18n strategy

Data architecture:

• Reporting systems
• BI pipelines

Technical Governance

• Technical governance process existence
• SDLC integration
• Tech debt management approach
• Support issue tracking

How are platform-level decisions made?

SDLC

Version Control:

• Branching strategy

CI/CD:

• Tooling stack
• Component pipelines
• Package pipelines
• Third-party package management