Phase D, Technology ArchitectureDerived from ThoughtWorks Radar

Technology Radar

State one shared position on every technology in play, plotted on four rings, Adopt, Trial, Assess and Hold, across four quadrants.

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Technology radar: rings and quadrants for a GB network operator

A ThoughtWorks-style radar plots twelve technologies on four rings, Adopt, Trial, Assess and Hold, across four quadrants, so a network operator can state one shared position on every technology in play.

Technology radar: rings and quadrants for a GB network operator A ThoughtWorks-style technology radar for a GB distribution network operator. Four concentric rings, Adopt, Trial, Assess and Hold from the centre outward, cross four quadrants: Techniques, Platforms, Tools, and Languages and frameworks. Twelve numbered blips mark positions, from Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and trunk-based delivery in Adopt to hand-rolled ETL scripts, shared mutable spreadsheets and unversioned APIs in Hold. A legend on the right lists every blip by quadrant with its ring. Source: ThoughtWorks Technology Radar model. Techniques Platforms Tools Languages and frameworks Adopt Trial Assess Hold 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Techniques 3 Trunk-based delivery Adopt 7 Digital twin simulation Assess 12 Unversioned APIs Hold Platforms 1 Kubernetes Adopt 2 PostgreSQL Adopt 4 Kafka event streaming Trial 8 Vector search Assess Tools 5 Infrastructure as code modules Trial 6 dbt transformations Trial 10 Hand-rolled ETL scripts Hold 11 Shared mutable spreadsheets Hold Languages and frameworks 9 WebAssembly at the edge Assess Source: ThoughtWorks Technology Radar model (thoughtworks.com/radar)

Read each blip from the centre outward: Adopt means use with confidence, Trial means prove it on real delivery work, Assess means explore the impact, and Hold means start nothing new with it. The legend pairs every numbered blip with its quadrant and ring.

When teams need an agreed, reviewable answer on which technologies to adopt, trial, assess or hold.

What you need and what you get

You'll need

  • Candidate technologies and where they are used
  • An owner and a rationale per blip

You'll get

  • A plotted radar of ringed blips by quadrant
  • A reviewable register of technology positions

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Derived from

  • Thoughtworks, Inc.Thoughtworks Technology Radar: four rings by four quadrantsSource