Software Architect's Handbook

Phase 0 – Partnership and preparation

This initial phase is used to prepare for the evaluation. The leader of the evaluation team meets with the project decision makers to agree on details about the evaluation. An agreement should be reached on the logistics of the meeting as well as which stakeholders will be invited.

As part of the preparation, the evaluation team looks at the architecture documentation to become familiar with the software application and its architecture. Expectations are set by the evaluation team as to the information they expect to be presented during Phase 1.