ADR Lifecycle Explained
Understand how architecture decisions are created, reviewed, approved, and superseded over time.
Understand how architecture decisions are created, reviewed, approved, and superseded over time.
Learn how AI assists with decision recommendations, historical context, and standards alignment.
Prepare for audits by linking decisions, systems, and evidence into an auditable trail.
Manage users, roles, and permissions across teams and regulated environments.
Capture point-in-time views of your architecture for audits, reviews, and change analysis.
Write clear, durable architecture decisions that scale across teams and time.
Track breaking changes and understand how decisions are formally replaced.
Assess how proposed decisions affect systems, standards, and risk posture.
Map decisions and systems to regulatory standards and internal controls.
Link architectural intent directly to the systems it governs.
Understand how governance controls, obligations, and exceptions work together.
Step-by-step guidance for capturing your first decision in Archivia.
Learn how Archivia structures decision ownership, authority, and review.
Understand decision states from draft through acceptance and retirement.
Report and manage deviations when implementations diverge from decisions.
Embed architectural governance directly into pull requests and issue tracking.
Attach and manage evidence that supports architectural and compliance claims.
Distinguish between temporary exceptions and formally approved deviations.
Export decisions, systems, and evidence for reporting and audits.
Common enterprise questions on scale, governance, and real-world use.
Start using Archivia quickly with guided setup and first steps.
Run structured, repeatable reviews for critical architecture decisions.
Connect architecture decisions to Jira issues and workflows.
Connect architecture decisions to Confluence pages.
Link decisions directly to repositories, pull requests, and commits.
Bring legacy ADRs and architecture documentation into Archivia.
Understand how decisions, systems, standards, and evidence relate.
Create traceable relationships across architecture artefacts.
Capture, assess, and mitigate risk within architectural decisions.
Measure architecture quality, risk, and governance effectiveness.
Structure organisations, teams, and workspaces effectively.
Define who owns decisions and how authority is enforced.
Clarify the difference between reusable patterns and organisation-approved reference architectures.
Understand how guiding principles and policies shape decisions.
Get your architecture and evidence audit-ready.
Generate reports across decisions, systems, and compliance.
Document risks and formal acceptance decisions.
See what’s coming next for Osono Archivia.
Quickly find and trace architecture decisions and artefacts.
Align architecture decisions with regulatory obligations.
Maintain an authoritative catalogue of systems and owners.
Track how decisions evolve and replace one another.
Maintain end-to-end traceability across architecture artefacts.
Customise decision templates and metadata fields.
Preserve historical context as architecture changes.
Collaborate effectively with auditors using Archivia.
Automate governance workflows and notifications.
