Enterprise Dependency Investigator

Change decisions rely on tribal knowledge of what depends on what. When a dependency is missed, the surprise arrives in production.

Enterprise architecture and change-management teams assessing retirements, migrations and major releases against an incomplete architecture record.

If we change, retire or replace this component, what else does the record say will be affected?

Not connected by default. Each source is scoped and authorized per engagement.

• Application inventory
• Architecture repository or modeling tool export
• Interface and integration catalog
• Open and historical change requests

• Resolve the component named in the change request
• List recorded upstream and downstream dependencies with sources
• Separate recorded facts from inferred or missing links
• Identify owners to consult for each affected component

• Reports only what the record contains
• Never infers a dependency without labeling it as an inference
• No changes to repositories or change tickets

The reviewing architect confirms or corrects each dependency and signs the dossier before change-board use.

• Recorded dependency list
• Change-impact summary
• Unknowns and stale-record register
• Owners to consult

• Each dependency cites its source
• Inferences are labeled as such
• Reviewer sign-off is recorded

Proposed measures to baseline during a pilot. These are not reported results.

• Dependencies cited versus asserted

  Ratio tracked per dossier.

• Missed-dependency incidents after change

  Compared with a pre-pilot baseline.

• A repository with relationship data
• Agreed component scope
• Reviewer availability