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Practice Management in an organization is a measured realization of shared service resources, that a well defined administrative function is required to regulate the intake, servicing, implementation, disposition, approval & delivery of architecture services to meet corporate & enterprise project needs. While architecture has become a norm within technology providers, regulation requires its intervention to ensure all policy, standards & compliance are satisfied. This office seamlessly unites architecture & its servicing clients, giving it a well deserved authority to direct, review, approve & enforce policies upheld by the enterprise & requiring external parties to adhere to its governance responsibilities.

ESSENTIALS OF PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

The success of a practice includes a set of operational functions, tools, services & disciplines designed to ensure the highest quality of services delivered to its subscribing constituents, mainly being the line of business entities it supports. While the overall commitment of the office is to build & deliver solutions to its customers, it must also provide the necessary guidance to architects servicing their clients while ensuring all aspects of compliance is not compromised which is why architecture exists to being with. Furthermore, the office streamlines the dissemination of policies, the know how, set of practice patterns, it ultimately depends heavily on architects to ensure compliance standards are met.

Building a practice office with the availability of cloud computing services along with SaaS for office productivity tools, coupled with Microsoft Office 365 allows any organization to stand up a platform within less than a week and allow its clients to begin submitting requests within under a month. This allows the practice office to ramp up processes & review activities before it approached volume processing its architects to receive adequate training to engage projects directly.

Benefits & Value

The greatest value of an established practice is architectural accountability. It allows the firm to demonstrate to auditors that projects were vetted out sufficiently & that standards were put into place to avert defects, intrusions & production outages. A well founded practice however, ensures a more rapid & streamlined process of delivery by pairing the right resources including a set of patterns & standards to create viable solutions. The adopted standards meets enterprise guidelines but also makes sure that solutions are in alignment with corporate policies & that both vendors and technologies are able to accommodate operational demands without compromising quality or security.

A matured practice allows architects to offer defensible designs for enterprise based models that can be supported consistently.

An established suite of processes, patterns & roadmaps lends projects to a great measure of simplified designs that can be automated to reduce overall development efforts, while increasing delivery to the enterprise because a well vetted collection of techniques, methods & tools configured for the digital landscape has been engineered for its maturity model. It provides architects direct access to a set of resources to avert having to develop anything on their own that has not been previously tested for use or compliance in the organization while enabling solutions to be seamlessly integrated into the enterprise because the authorized endpoint/interfaces been been established. This makes any solution built to operational specifications that is ready for enterprise use because it adopts pre-defined standards.