Systems of Record is a 10-part series. Use this page as the table of contents and read the posts in order.

Read the series in order

  1. Source of Truth Is a Governance Decision
  2. The Map of Business Systems
  3. Customer, Product, Vendor, and Employee Masters
  4. Ownership Boundaries Across Systems
  5. Synchronization Failure and Shadow Truth
  6. Identifiers, Hierarchies, and Reconciliation
  7. Buying, Building, and Integration Boundaries
  8. Migrations as Operating Risk
  9. Systems Architecture Literacy for Operators
  10. The Systems of Record Audit

Start with Source of Truth Is a Governance Decision. If you want the practical diagnostic, jump to The Systems of Record Audit.