What does business want?
Business is constantly evolving and dynamic. What does this mean for architecture?
Every year the requirements for assessing the accuracy of the project budget are growing. In order to properly plan the project and project costs, it is necessary to have a fairly accurate estimate from IT, taking into account the interests of all stakeholders, the sooner the better.
The complexity and scale off page seo service of tasks are growing , projects are becoming larger and changes are affecting an increasing number of bank systems.
The number of tasks is growing . The volume of tasks that require architecture development has grown 3.5 times over the past 4 years and continues to grow continuously.
Business does not want to lag behind the market. Business wants to go much faster than the market. And, at the same time, we all think about customers first. And customers value:
simple and intuitive interface, meaning everything you need is always at hand;
nice and beautiful design;
the best service on the market.
In addition to the business and the project team, a fairly large number of departments that are not directly involved in the project are interested in its implementation. But from an architectural point of view, these are stakeholders.
What do stakeholders want?
Tasks do not exist on their own. Each task has interested parties - stakeholders who want their interests to be taken into account in the project.
What do they want? Simple things that are no less important to the client than simple and clear functions. Briefly about them:
Compliance . Takes care of the requirements of legislation and the Central Bank for storing client data, and how the client is represented in the bank's systems so that the client's data is uniform, complete and consistent.
Lawyers: Ensure that the bank's decisions and functions comply with the law.
Various financial departments evaluate decisions in terms of compliance with the company's financial accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
Business directions. Various business directions are actively developed by a fairly large number of business units (business stream or simply business). Business cares about customers and about the bank's functions being clear and convenient and meeting market requirements. There are many business units, and they actively defend the interests of various customer segments. When forming requirements for the architecture, business units focus on achieving the goals of certain customer segments. But the segments are very different and it happens that the interests of some customer categories contradict others. At the same time, they strive to find consensus and take into account the interests of all parties.