Standard
Technology Radar Standard
This standard governs how the organization curates its technology choices over time. The technology radar is a structured way to evaluate, classify, and communicate the organization's stance on specific technologies, techniques, platforms, languages, and tools.
- Type
- Standard
- Version
- 1.0.9
- Date
- 2026-10-27
- Owner
- Chief Technology Officer
- Approving authority
- Governance Library Maintainer
- Classification
- Public
- Confidentiality
- Public
- Category
- Architecture
- Review frequency
- Quarterly
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outline
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Principles
- 4. Rings
- 5. Quadrants
- 6. Blip structure
- 7. Lifecycle
- 8. Governance
- 9. Criteria
- 10. Relationship to other governance artefacts
- 11. AI and the radar
- 12. Handling exceptions
- 13. Operating expectations
- 14. Framework alignment
- 15. Limitations
Frameworks it maps to
- ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
- Open Group TOGAF Standard
- Open Agile Architecture (O-AA)
- OWASP SAMM
- NIST SSDF SP 800-218 Version 1.1
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
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