Define the business context and use case: Which activity should anchor the effort before architecture
Before architecture, the team must define the business context and use case, which frames objectives, stakeholders, and success metrics.
The question
A bank wants to build an AI system but has not yet articulated the problem it solves, who is affected, or how success will be measured, and engineers are already debating model architectures. A governance lead intervenes to set the correct first design activity. Which activity should anchor the effort before architecture decisions proceed?
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- Select the model architecture and candidate algorithms so the team can benchmark performance against realistic latency budgets.Plausible but wrong: architecture selection is a later design step (III.A.3) that depends on a defined use case to guide it.
- Draft the data provenance and lineage records so the eventual training dataset can be traced back to its lawful sources.Almost right because lineage matters, but provenance work (III.B.2) follows once the use case and data needs are known.
- Define the business context and use case, specifying the problem, affected stakeholders, objectives, and success measures. ✓Correct because III.A.1 requires defining the business context and use case, which frames every downstream requirement and metric.
- Design the post-market monitoring plan so field performance can be tracked from the moment the system reaches production.Plausible but wrong: monitoring planning is a release-stage activity that presupposes a defined use case and objectives.
The trap
Starting with model architecture before the business problem, stakeholders, and success metrics are defined. How to remember it
Before architecture, the team must define the business context and use case, which frames objectives, stakeholders, and success metrics.
How many of these would you get right?
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