Enterprise architecture review board
A review body that assesses digital proposals against architectural standards and direction.
Plain English
A committee that reviews proposed systems against government-wide architecture direction before they are allowed to proceed.
If you’re new here
Most departments have their own, and there is a government-wide one above it. Going means presenting your design and answering questions about why you are not reusing something that already exists.
What they probably mean
“Before you build it, come and explain why you cannot use what we already have.”
Interpretation offered as humour, not authoritative guidance.
Seen in the wild
“This will need to go to the architecture review board before we can proceed.”
Translate this sentence →Bureaucracy level
How much government-speak this phrase carries. Playful indicator, not a judgement of anyone using it.
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