The Architecture Review Board (ARB) is the common ground for reviewing IT initiatives, ensuring that their outcome is aligned strategically and architecturally, utilizing best practices, in accordance with uOttawa’s policies and standards, with respect to business and technical capabilities, information management, security and privacy, integration, user experience, application design, and infrastructure.
The Architecture Review Board (ARB) is the common ground for central IT project presentations.
The ARB plays a significant role in centralizing information sharing on different topics related to Enterprise Architecture, ensuring overall alignment with the governance strategy. Different initiatives are being developed in order to reach a well defined framework, leading to a stabilized future state, even more reliable and evolved: all of that being part of building the University of Tomorrow.
The overall process of the ARB is aligned with the Project Management LifeCycle, run by the Project and Portfolio Management Office (PPMO), ensuring that IT initiatives are aligned with the business strategy of the organization.
Your project has one or more of the following characteristics, ARB will be required:
Note that all projects are evaluated and some exceptions are possible, depending on the situation. The Director, Enterprise Architecture has the final say with regards to ARB mandatory requirements.
If you have any doubts, questions or concerns, please contact the EA Analyst, that can help evaluate the mandatory requirements based on the IT initiative.
Contact the ARB Coordination Team:
[email protected]
