In the life cycle of product development, the most challenging phase is to establish the nature of the requirements, especially when all the elements need to be addressed as high priority, and they keep changing rapidly. This challenge is even worse when there are different views of the same requirement from various stakeholders. For example, a business user analyzes the page design from a user point of view, while a developer is looking at it from implementation feasibility and load latency perspectives. This can cause conflicts and misunderstandings of requirements between functional and technical members. In such cases, solution architecture helps to bridge the gap, and define a standard that all members can understand.

Solution architecture defines standard documentation, which can explain the technical aspects to non-technical stakeholders and update them regularly. As a solution architecture's design spans across the organization and different teams, it can help to discover hidden requirements. The solution architect makes sure that the development team knows about the requirements, and also maintains the cycle of progress.

A good solution architecture defines not only the solution design, but also the success criteria in the form of qualitative and quantitative output, in order to ensure the quality of delivery. The qualitative output can be collected from user feedback, such as their sentiment analysis, while quantitative output may include latency, performance, load time at the technical side, and sales numbers at the business side. Taking continuous feedback and adapting to it is the key to high-quality delivery, which should adhere to all the phases of solution design and development.