Hey everyone, 

It was awesome to give this presentation to y’all and also answer some thoughtful questions. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me via the community or your CSM! Looking forward to a next part as we grow into new features. 

@justinharclerode I really enjoyed the presentation.  One of the best I’ve attended so far.

I’d like to hear your thoughts on how we could customize LeanIX, or add a feature request, to represent ephemeral standards such as coding standards that don’t fit well into a technology stack\platform.  We’d like people to link these to their architectures and on the relationship capture evidence of compliance such as testing code coverage reports etc.  It’s really diving down into solution architecture so there’s some debate internally about whether we should do it, even if we can.

Thoughts?

Hi and thanks for the webinar 

Here’s a report I use to show how Technology Standards are evolving over time. This helps Solution Architects know what they can safely build on. A roadmap report would let you explore what Initiatives are making the changes and when.

What reports are you using to communicate Technology Standards? 

Hey Dave, 

Thanks for the feedback, so happy you enjoyed it! Means a lot. Nonetheless, I agree with the internal sentiment should we really look at these types on NIST Controls. However I do see benefit for certain type of organizations absolutely. What I would recommend would to have a Control Factsheet and list these controls in a hierarchy format. You’ll have relations to capabilities and applications. On the application I you can use a relational attribute called ‘Control Status’ to help understand if this control is met or not. Feel free to add something that suits. This would handle your first case on ephemeral standards. When we talk about making it a standard, I would use a Principle factsheet subtype Security Principles or Application Principles where these have relations to tech categories and maybe capabilities or  applications. If these share a mutual relation you can use a matrix report to understand how controls relate to → applications → & principles or, tech categories with approved technologies relate to applications and controls. Combining different drill downs and filters can help here to. 

I would also check out our VSM module if you’re looking to track standards as they relate to code languages and repositories. We can sync these to LX as services and tie them to the above for more detail. I am happy to chat with you and your Customer Success Manager in more detail. 

Cheers

Hi and thanks for the webinar 

Here’s a report I use to show how Technology Standards are evolving over time. This helps Solution Architects know what they can safely build on. A roadmap report would let you explore what Initiatives are making the changes and when.

 

What reports are you using to communicate Technology Standards? 

Bonjour Stephen! 

So I recommend also including the technology radar report which is available in the LeanIX Store. I really like this report as it also has some attribute values you can filter on. Thoughts on using this in combination? 

Hi @justinharclerode 

That report would be useful to show standard technologies being explored.