Capstone architecture review checklist

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The capstone asks the learner to think like the owner of a CluedIn implementation. Instead of learning one feature at a time, they review an end-to-end design and decide whether it will hold up for stewardship, governance, and consumption.

What you should get from this module

  • combine the course into one end-to-end architecture review
  • use product behavior as evidence for design quality
  • produce a practical improvement plan rather than a vague critique

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Guided walkthrough

Choose one domain or dataset and conduct a full review across the platform.

Semantic design

  • Is the business domain clear?
  • Is the vocabulary disciplined?
  • Are key fields named in ways that support search and reuse?

Identity and mapping

  • Is the primary identifier safe?
  • Are additional identifiers justified?
  • Do mappings preserve enough information for stewardship and export?

Record behavior

  • Do processed records look understandable in search?
  • Does History make the record lifecycle intelligible?
  • Are duplicate or relation behaviors aligned with design intent?

Remediation and governance

  • Could stewards isolate common issues with filters, glossary, or tags?
  • Are clean-project and rule paths obvious?
  • Would Tag Monitoring or AI-assisted remediation produce useful queues?

Consumption

  • Does the stream design offer a clear downstream contract?
  • Would consumers understand the impact of later merges, cleaning, or relation updates?

End with an improvement plan that distinguishes:

  • immediate fixes
  • near-term design changes
  • steward enablement changes
  • future automation opportunities

Role lens

A complete architect is not the person who can configure the most features. It is the person who can look at a CluedIn implementation and explain whether it is coherent, teachable, governable, and safe to scale.

Practice assignment

Write an architecture review memo for one domain with four sections:

  1. What is working well
  2. What is confusing or risky
  3. What stewards would struggle with today
  4. What you would change first and why

Exit criteria

  • The learner can assess an implementation end to end rather than feature by feature.
  • The learner produces a concrete improvement plan.
  • The learner can justify recommendations in operational as well as technical terms.

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