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Architecture Governance
Architecture governance is how you ensure that changes to your IT landscape are reviewed, approved, and tracked. Without it, teams make changes independently, technical debt accumulates invisibly, and nobody knows who approved what — or why.
Albumi provides Architecture Change Requests with approval workflows, Review Boards with voting, and version-controlled modifications. Every change goes through a structured process — from proposal to review to implementation.
What You Can Do
Architecture Change Requests
Propose changes to your architecture through structured change requests. Each ACR describes what's changing, why, and what the impact is. This creates an audit trail of every architectural decision — invaluable for compliance and institutional knowledge.
Review Boards
Set up review boards with the right people — enterprise architects, security, operations. Board members can vote to approve or reject change requests, add comments, and request modifications. Advisory and decision-making roles are clearly separated.
Version-Controlled Changes
Every modification to your architecture is tracked. When someone asks "who added this integration?" or "when was this application marked for retirement?", the answer is in the change history — not in someone's email inbox.
Example: New Integration Approval
A development team wants to add a direct integration between the CRM and the billing system, bypassing the integration platform. They submit an Architecture Change Request. The review board sees the proposal, runs impact analysis to check for conflicts, and the security architect flags that the proposed integration would carry PII data without going through the standard encryption layer.
The board requests modifications — route through the integration platform and add encryption. The team updates the proposal, it gets approved, and the decision is documented for future reference. No shadow IT, no surprise integrations discovered during the next audit.
Works Together With
Impact Analysis
Run impact analysis as part of the change request review to understand the full scope of proposed changes.
Integration Catalog
New integrations go through governance before being added to the catalog.
Data Lineage
Review data flow changes for PII and compliance implications during governance reviews.
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