Clean Core Strategy for Architects

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Clean core governance checklist

• Name an owner and a target for each dimension: stack, processes, extensibility, integration, data, operations.
• Standard first: configure or use a standard app before extending.
• Extend at the highest clean core level possible; the weakest component sets the level.
• New ABAP in ABAP Cloud; level D refused for new work; level C needs a design authority decision.
• Every extension: decision record, owner, level, linked test cases, review date.
• Run ATC in development and at release; exemptions approved by a named quality manager.
• Watch the RISE with SAP Methodology dashboard in SAP Cloud ALM; check ATC data feeds if figures vanish.
• Track level mix and release currency together; review quarterly.
• Test level C and D objects first in every stack; show them at sign-off.