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Solution Governance and Sourcing Kit

Keep solutions healthy and buy well: architecture health check, cloud review, runway, RFI and RFP, vendor scorecard, build vs buy, licence review and architecture contract.

Step 1

Assessments

  1. Solution Architecture Health Check Template

    Full

    13 scored dimensions, weighted health index, ISO 25010 NFR drift, lifecycle and EOL, debt, cost trend, AWS, Azure and Google pillar mapping, actions, trend

    AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Well-Architected pillars (mapping); ISO/IEC 25010:2023
  2. Cloud Architecture Review Template (Multi-Cloud Well-Architected)

    Full

    Provider-neutral or multi-cloud workload review: pillar mapping for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, Alibaba, lens selection, version lock, risks, plan, sign-off

    Well-Architected pillar mapping: AWS (6 pillars), Azure (5 pillars), Google Cloud (6 pillars), OCI, Alibaba Cloud
  3. Technical Debt Register Template

    Standard

    Debt register with Fowler quadrant taxonomy, interest, principal, risk-weighted priority score, triage, budget and reporting

Step 2

Planning

  1. Technology Radar Template

    Standard

    Technology radar: quadrants, adopt/trial/assess/hold rings, blip table with movement and rationale, governance and cadence

    Technology radar concept (Thoughtworks)
  2. Architecture Runway Plan Template (SAFe Enablers)

    Full

    Intentional vs emergent decisions, guardrails, upcoming features, runway inventory and gaps, enabler backlog, spikes, capacity allocation, runway metrics

    SAFe 6.0 Architectural Runway; Open Agile Architecture 2.0 (names only)
Step 3

Sourcing

  1. Request for Information (RFI) Template

    Full

    Purpose and non-commitment, background, objectives, scope, timetable, capability, technical, security, delivery and commercial questions, rules, next steps

    ISO/IEC/IEEE 41062:2024 (software acquisition)
  2. Request for Proposal (RFP) Template

    Full

    Issuer RFP: bidder instructions, timetable, Q&A rules, mandatory/scored/informational IDs, NFR and security questions, weighted scoring, pricing

    ISO/IEC/IEEE 41062:2024 (software acquisition)
  3. Vendor Evaluation Scorecard Template

    Full

    Evaluation plan, panel and conflicts, anchored scale, knock-outs, weighted criteria, individual and consensus scores, demos, due diligence, price score

    ISO/IEC/IEEE 41062:2024; ISO/IEC 25040:2024
  4. Build vs Buy Analysis Template

    Full

    Capability need, differentiation test, sourcing options, knock-outs, fit, 5-year cost, time to market, lock-in and exit, skills, risk, weighted score, decision

    ISO/IEC/IEEE 41062:2024; ISO/IEC 25010:2023
  5. Technology Selection Template (Weighted Decision Matrix)

    Full

    Technology or product evaluation with knock-out screening, weighted matrix scored by several evaluators, PoC results, risks, cost, decision, due diligence and exit plan

Step 4

Contract

  1. Software Licence and Contract Review Template (ISO/IEC 19770, SPDX)

    Full

    Contract set, entitlements, licence metrics, effective licence position, virtualisation and cloud rules, OSS by SPDX, audit, SLA, data and exit terms, risks

    ISO/IEC 19770-1:2017 (Amd 1:2024); ISO/IEC 19770-3:2016; SPDX 3.0.1
  2. Supplier Security Assessment Template

    Standard

    Vendor vetting + ongoing monitoring

  3. TOGAF Architecture Contract Template

    Full

    Parties, scope, frozen baseline, contracted requirements, deliverables, acceptance criteria, checkpoints, dispensations, metrics, variations, RACI, signatures

    TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition (2025 release with Technical Corrigendum 1): Phase G, Architecture Contract