{"slug":"architect-people-management-system","name":"Architect a People Management System","family":"Lock Method","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Turn a business and workforce need into a coherent target system before individual policies, processes, practices, or technologies are designed.","purpose":"Define the purpose, outcomes, boundary, operating model, components, interfaces, authority, evidence, constraints, and transition logic for one people-management system.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Frame the system and architecture decision","purpose":"Establish the actual system problem rather than beginning from a preferred program or tool."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Diagnose the current system","purpose":"See how policy, process, practice, roles, data, systems, controls, measures, and interfaces behave together."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Define target purpose and operating model","purpose":"Set coherent design direction before specifying components."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Architect components and interfaces","purpose":"Specify how the complete mechanism must fit together."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Evaluate options and establish the roadmap","purpose":"Convert architecture into an executable, risk-aware sequence."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Transfer and govern the architecture","purpose":"Keep downstream work coherent and update architecture through controlled learning."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Discover and Synthesize Process Evidence","processSlug":"discover-and-synthesize-process-evidence","trigger":"Architecture requires evidence beyond the current approved estate."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Redesign Work and Workflow","processSlug":"redesign-work-and-workflow","trigger":"The roadmap authorizes workflow or operating-process design."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Select a Business System","processSlug":"select-business-system","trigger":"The roadmap authorizes technology selection."}],"plannedConnections":[],"measures":[{"name":"Architecture decision quality","definition":"Architecture engagements reaching an accepted decision with no unresolved critical component or interface.","cadence":"Per architecture and quarterly portfolio review"},{"name":"Design-object coverage","definition":"Required design objects and interfaces with defined purpose, owner, disposition, and acceptance divided by all identified requirements.","cadence":"At architecture review"},{"name":"Architecture cycle time","definition":"Elapsed time by system, consequence, scope, evidence readiness, and disposition.","cadence":"Monthly"},{"name":"Downstream design conformance","definition":"Reviewed designs accepted without material architecture conflict divided by reviewed designs.","cadence":"Per design review"},{"name":"Architecture exceptions","definition":"Open exceptions by severity, component, interface, owner, age, and disposition.","cadence":"Biweekly during implementation"},{"name":"Architecture guardrails","definition":"Context-specific guardrail set reviewed alongside system outcomes and delivery evidence.","cadence":"At every material decision"}]}