Valtech Smart Architecture promotes an Agile and incremental architecture construction. The architectural style we use is both service-oriented and non-intrusive. Being modular, the Smart Architecture is not only effective early on in the project, but is also Agile enough to grow smoothly up until IS integration. Being non-intrusive, the Smart Architecture allows technical decision changes and business function evolutions to be independent from technical infrastructure.
Business and service oriented
Smart architecture should effectively support to the business operations instead of solving problems that exists somewhere other than in your business.
Agile and incremental
Projects and human beings are good at solving existing problems, but poor at anticipating unidentified needs. Valtech Smart Architecture starts small, with just the technical infrastructure subset that's needed to get started. It’s available rapidly and fulfills a real need. Being service oriented, it can evolve alongside business changes, from the business process reconfiguration and architecture expansion through to business or technical service and even IS integration.
Vendor independent
Valtech Smart Architecture focuses on providing maximum technical flexibility by mixing non-intrusive architectural solutions such as lightweight containers, service facades, externalized orchestration and aspect-oriented design.
As clients, you have needs and rights: The need to have an architecture that evolves with your system, the right to change your mind or to take advantage of new solutions as they appear. Whatever the future throws at you, Valtech Smart Architecture sees it as an evolution, not a rebuild.
- Don’t make it a fixed-length project, but focus on stakeholders, results, resources and business value.
- Be aware of priorities and realistic requirements.
- The architecture must be designed with testing in mind.
- Smart Architecture elaboration is a cross-functional project.
- Consider build (or make build) versus buy. Add Open Source opportunities to the picture.
- Avoid lock-in.
- Focus on delivering a small but reliable first iteration, and use the feedback loop for the next delivery.
- Don’t believe in the one-size-fits-all approach.
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