Architecture Working Group (AWB)

The Architecture Working Group (AWB) is the approval authority for Enterprise Architecture principles, IT Standards, and strategic architecture roadmaps. The primary mandate of the AWG is to review and authorize proposed IM/IT projects initiatives and solutions to be communicated and presented at ARB, steps that are mandatory throughout the Project Portfolio Management Office (PPMO) gating requirements.

In practice, this responsibility is carried out by performing the following functions for the review of business-led technology projects:

  • Applies an overall University perspective in the evaluation of issues or concerns related to digital initiatives.
  • Guides architecture deliverables, makes decisions and recommendations regarding large-scale digital initiatives.
  • Reviews, makes recommendations, and endorses the business and IT designs and Enterprise Architecture components (including business capabilities, information structures, IT infrastructures, systems, and applications).
  • Establishes, owns and manages the components of the Enterprise Architecture Strategy (i.e. principles, standards, policies, guidelines and reference models).
  • Documents possible exceptions for deviations from the Enterprise Architecture Strategy.
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