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title: '02 — Organizational Constraints'
description: 'Organizational constraints that affect architecture decisions.'
status: draft
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# Organizational Constraints

> e.g., team skillsets, development workflows, CI/CD pipelines.

Restrictions arising from organizational factors include:

1. **Team Expertise**: The development team’s familiarity with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and frontend technologies like Jinja2 and Chart.js influences the architecture choices to ensure maintainability and ease of development.
2. **Development Processes**: The adoption of Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines (using Gitea Actions) shapes the architecture to support continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment practices.
3. **Collaboration Tools**: The use of specific collaboration and version control tools (e.g., Gitea) affects how code is managed, reviewed, and integrated, impacting the overall architecture and development workflow.
4. **Documentation Standards**: The requirement for comprehensive documentation (as seen in the `docs/` folder) necessitates an architecture that is well-structured and easy to understand for both current and future team members.
5. **Knowledge Sharing**: The need for effective knowledge sharing and onboarding processes influences the architecture to ensure that it is accessible and understandable for new team members.
6. **Resource Availability**: The availability of hardware, software, and human resources within the organization can impose constraints on the architecture, affecting decisions related to scalability, performance, and feature implementation.