Assessment
Understand current architecture, risks, constraints, and drift.
Meridian
Meridian helps technical leaders assess architecture, compare options, expose trade-offs, record decisions, and govern implementation against accepted baselines.
Definition
Meridian helps identify the decisions that matter, explain the options, and make trade-offs visible before a human decision maker records the outcome.
Supporting design can also be documented, but Meridian distinguishes it from stakeholder-impacting architecture decisions.
What Meridian supports
Understand current architecture, risks, constraints, and drift.
Explore target-state options with rationale and trade-offs.
Evaluate whether a direction is practical under real constraints.
Compare platforms, frameworks, and vendors against stakeholder concerns.
Plan movement from current state to target state with risk-aware sequencing.
Check future changes against accepted decisions and review baselines.
Decision ownership
Meridian recommends options and trade-offs. Your CTO, Chief Architect, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or other accountable leader records the decision.
Accepted decisions preserve decision maker, rationale, consensus state, assumptions, and consequences.
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