A way of checking an architecture by setting baseline building blocks against target ones in a matrix, revealing anything added, removed or left out by mistake.
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Each book explains Gap analysis in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Baseline
A formally reviewed and approved specification that may afterwards be altered only under formal change control. The word also describes the architecture as it stands today.
- Matrix
Like a table, but able to lay values out in stepped form over several dimensions, total them automatically and drill down through hierarchies; a Power BI visual.