Max Stahlecker is currently working on his bachelor thesis about architecture conformance. He's a student at the School of Economics and Business Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. His bachelor program is a combination of computer science, business administration and law.

During a 6 month internship at the BMW Group, the foundation of his own company and several Open Group conferences he got insight into the architecture area.

In his one year of military service he was a member of the small team analysing and porting German military database applications.

Presentation
Architecture Conformance: Sweeping Mines in Your Enterprise
Architecture is used as a transmission tool of Enterprise Architecture Governance Decisions. As long as the involved stakeholders of Architecture Practice and Operational Domain stick to the developed target architecture during implementation and operation, Enterprise Architecture Governance works.

However the decision rights and accountability framework between Architecture Practice and Operational Domain is often woolly or doesn’t even exist. Architecturally non-aligned assets will be implemented and lead to suboptimal return on architecture investment. Even worse, these assets are not visible to the Architecture Practice and the Enterprise Architecture Governance Team.

Thus conformance with the developed architecture is fundamental to ensure that all made considerations are addressed and all required deliverables are produced and that the overall business goals can be met.

An Architecture Conformance Process, using a structured approach like the four steps ”detect, diagnose, correct and prevent”, is mandatory.

Architecture Conformance is currently the blind spot in Enterprise Architecture Governance.

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