SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE GROUP

· Ensure the client Design Authority Group meet regularly to ensure rapid decision making. Daily if necessary for 1 hr in the early stages of the project. Ensure the group agree that decisions will be made within a suitably short time: 2 days is a good target

· The role of the Solution Architecture Group and the client Design Authority Group is to ensure the technical solution meets the client requirements

· Subject matter experts with knowledge of the clients business and product portfolio to be supported are essential
Where data is used by multiple packages then consistent definitions of data structures are required to simplify middleware interfaces. For example, a consistent product definition is required across the CRM and Billing packages to enable orders for products to be captured in CRM and then passed to the Billing platform for bill production