Solution Architecture Foundations

5 GAP ANALYSIS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

When you have completed this chapter, you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following:

• The purpose of gap analysis
• When gap analysis is used in the solution architecture life cycle
• What inputs are required for gap analysis
• The steps that are carried out
• What outputs are produced from gap analysis and who is the audience for them
• How gap analysis feeds into roadmap development

5.1 THE PURPOSE OF GAP ANALYSIS

Gap analysis is an important tool in enterprise and solution architecture as it is a systematic way to compare two architecture descriptions and identify the differences. An architecture description documents an architecture in a particular state, so the differences identified using ...