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CES Architecture Success Scorecard

The latest version of the Architecture Success Scorecard is conveniently accessed through Qualtrics. You can also view a PDF version of the scorecard matrix for reference.

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Getting Started & FAQs

  • IT Architectural alignment is an important principal for making key IT decisions for BYU and CES. While we are all trying to make the best possible decisions for our customers, the size of our IT enterprise, the complexity of custom software development, maintenance of large legacy platforms, and the overwhelming technology options available on the market often make our IT decisions difficult. To help with this, we have automated portions of our IT architectural review process to help speed up decision making, ensure architectural alignment and allow your teams to deliver quickly. While we are making efforts to streamline this process, these architectural assessments are required.

  • If you have completed the scorecard before and understand the questions, you can expect this scorecard to take 15-20 minutes to complete and should be self-service.

    If you are filling out this scorecard for the first time or working with a CES architect, you can expect this scorecard to take 45-60 minutes to complete. If this is your first time, it is recommended that a CES architect assist you in filling this out.



    • Your Name (or campus NetID)
    • The name of the IT Architect or other individual helping you fill this scorecard out (if applicable)
    • The name of the technology, solution or service being evaluated (this information should come from your Product Lifecycle documentation)
    • URL(s) to the location of the solution project documentation (e.g. Discovery documentation). This can be Box, SharePoint etc. 
    • URL(s) to the location of any architectural or other diagrams that help describe the solution
    • The Service Family relationship for this solution
  • If you are unable to complete this scorecard, help is always available. Please contact the CES IT Architecture Team at ces-it-arch@byu.edu. We will either help you complete this scorecard or connect you with others in the organization to help you complete this.

  • Scoring is based on our six architecture principles and eight architectural layers.

    For each of the principles and layers, a question will be asked. You will be required to score the architecture based on a series of statements. Scoring is based on a 0 to 5 scale. For new projects and investments, a score of 3 or higher should be targeted. While it is expected there will be some exceptions to this, it is expected that those exceptions are documented as part of this process. You will be asked to provide brief statements in the survey about the scores you have selected.

    Scorecard Scale

    It's important to keep in mind that scores below 3 in any principle or layer does not mean that the project will be rejected or determined to be in trouble. The scoring is intended to help understand how far from the target the project may be and also provides feedback to management and engineering teams on defects, complications or areas of improvements identified.