The Outputs page shows where the architecture practice stands today. The figures are live from the repository, the engagements and the ARB, so there is nothing to refresh or prepare.
Everyone who can sign in can read it. Use it before a board meeting, in a management review, or to spot what needs chasing. For reports you can customise and export, see Reports.
Outputs & dashboards
The top of the page has headline tiles: active engagements, ARB items in the pipeline, open ARB actions (with how many are overdue), dispensations expiring in 90 days and open requests for an extra ARB.
- Links below take you to the decision log, the dispensation register and the next ARB agenda and pack.
- If add-on modules are switched on, their links and panels appear here too, for example the RAID summary.
Charts below break each area down. They count what exists now, not a snapshot in time.
Engagements by stage
A bar for each stage an engagement can be in, with the number at that stage. Active engagements are all those that are neither closed nor parked.
- Use it to see where work is bunching up, for example many requests waiting for triage.
- Press Open the engagements to go to the list and act on them.
Counts include every engagement you are allowed to see. Stages are explained in ADM engagements.
Gates
A table of gate status across engagements. Each row is a gate in the engagement process and the columns show how many engagements are at each state, such as waiting, proceed, parked or closed.
- A gate that is always full means a decision is stuck. Find out who owns it.
- Gate 2 and Gate 4 decisions follow the ARB decision, so a delay here often starts at the Board.
The numbers are totals. Open an engagement to act on its gate.
ARB items by status
A bar for each ARB item status: Submitted, Deferred (information required), Ready for agenda, On agenda, Decided and Withdrawn.
- A tall Submitted bar means the secretariat has triage to do.
- A tall Deferred bar means submitters owe information.
- Ready-for-agenda items are waiting for a meeting date.
Click through to the ARB triage queue to open the items behind a bar.
ARB outcomes
How the Board has decided so far: Approved, Approved with caveats, Rejected or Deferred, as a bar for each. If no decision has been recorded yet, the section says so.
Read it as a pattern. A high share of caveats may mean submissions are arriving incomplete, and many deferrals may mean the pack standard is unclear. For each decision’s reasoning, use the decision log.
Compliance recorded at decision
For decided items, how many were recorded as Fully conformant, Partly conformant, Non-conformant or Not assessed. The Chair sets this when recording the decision, starting from the architect’s assessment.
- A growing Non-conformant bar is a signal to review the standards or the way exceptions are handled.
- Lots of Not assessed means decisions are being made without a governance assessment.
See Assessment against the governance hierarchy.
Dispensations expiring or expired
Shown only when there is something to see. It lists dispensations (approved waivers) that expire within 90 days or already have, with the item, the expiry date and how many days are left.
- Open the item to read the conditions.
- If the exception is still needed, submit a new ARB item to renew it.
- If not, bring the solution back into line.
An expired dispensation no longer covers the exception. The full list is the Dispensation register.
Governance library
A count of principles, policies, standards and patterns by status: Active, Draft and Retired.
- Many drafts means items are waiting for a governance owner to publish.
- Few active items under a principle means assessments against it have little to say.
Open the governance library to work on the items.
Repository quality
Simple health checks on the repository: the number of elements and relationships, and how many elements have no owner, are not connected to anything, have not been reviewed in 12 months, or look like possible duplicates.
- Pick the biggest number first.
- Go to Applications and technology and fix the records, for example by adding an owner or merging duplicates through a change set.
The figures improve only when the data is fixed. They are not hidden or adjusted.
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