- Check out the first version of an app
- Run code analysis tools like Structure 101 or Lattix on them, and setup rules for architectural violations
- Repeat for each version to date
- Project the results on a time-lapse display tool that shows change in architectural violations over time
This will show you:
- The inflexion points where the implementation deviated from the original intent
- Impact of adding new resources
- Impact of not having policy manifested in the system/ not having documentation
- Impact of tribal knowledge
I posit that this will also show you:
- Why thought leaders that build great systems need not always make great teachers
- Why tribes/inner circles are a bad idea
- Why NIH is a bad idea
- Why publicly available implementations/frameworks are better than proprietary ones in general
- How a well documented proprietary framework with a clearly manifested policy could be a long way from becoming BBOMA. Although you might not find very many examples of such a framework :)