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Architecture Validation Program

GSA Firm Fixed Price - $150,000 per year

The ICH Architecture Validation Program is designed for organizations requiring an assessment of both the planned and actual project deliverables. The program is a results based assessment of how well the EA:

• Demonstrates business alignment
• Provides performance based justifications
• Can be validated against real world capabilities
• Provides normative models that can be made actionable

This is an ICH Branded Program that confirms that the EA outputs conform to ICH Leading Practices. It is designed for organizations that want to move past documentation to actionable architectures based on ICH's critical success patterns and resultant key performance indicators.

Deliverables:

• Basic ICH membership offerings
• Project Plan
• ICH EA Framework Key Performance Indicator Descriptions
• Three day workshop on EA Framework Development and Training material
• ICH's detailed leading-practices Architectural Templates
• ICH accelerated workshop reviews of Business, Information, Solution
• Set, Technology and Security components (formal assessment of iterative EA products) (architectural audit reports)
• Architecture Hotline support
• Problem remediation with five days of SME support
• ICH Bronze Branded EA Framework
• Red-lining of related IT Planning and Architecture Documents, with final architecture auditing report

Benefits:

Those engaging this architecture validation program will improve the consistency of the representation of an organizations architecture artifacts (business, applications, data. This IV&V program, provided by a non-profit organization, ensures that potential conflicts of interests are address and that the results are verifiable.

• Correct architecture representations
• Proper use of selection criteria (common criteria)
• Adequacy of architecture views
• Ability to implement
• Proper use of commercial standards (A119)