Architecture Review Kit: Checklist, Scorecard & NFRs – Word DOCX

BENEFITS OF THIS DOWNLOADABLE WORD DOCUMENT

1. A weighted scorecard that turns a review into a defensible Approve, Conditions, Rework or Reject recommendation
2. Ten-domain review checklist plus NFR assessment that converts vague quality expectations into testable numbers
3. Three fully worked examples -- CRM, cloud migration and SaaS -- one of which deliberately fails the bar

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE WORD DESCRIPTION

Architecture Review Kit DOCX: Download checklist, scorecard & NFR templates aligned to TOGAF for enterprise architecture solution reviews and risk assessment. Architecture Review Kit: Checklist, Scorecard & NFRs is a 4-page Word document with a supplemental Zip archive file document available for immediate download upon purchase.

Stop reinventing the architecture review every time one is needed.

Every solution review tends to be the same scramble: assemble a checklist, argue about what good looks like, chase non-functional requirements nobody wrote down, and produce a report a design authority will accept. This kit provides a repeatable system for exactly that, aligned to TOGAF and proven across three fully worked examples.

A SYSTEM, NOT A FOLDER OF FILES

The checklist and NFR assessment feed the scorecard. The scorecard and risk register feed the review report. Findings become conditions with owners and dates. Each piece assumes the others exist, which is what makes the output coherent rather than a set of independently produced documents that happen to concern the same project.

A DEFENSIBLE VERDICT

The weighted scorecard assesses each domain, applies materiality weighting, and produces a transparent recommendation: Approve, Approve with Conditions, Rework, or Reject. This matters because the hardest moment in any review is explaining an unfavourable decision to a sponsor under schedule pressure. A subjective view invites negotiation. A weighted score with visible inputs does not.

NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS, QUANTIFIED

Solutions rarely fail on features. They fail on the things nobody wrote down – the report that takes eleven minutes, the integration that collapses at month-end volume, the system nobody can restore because recovery was never specified. The NFR assessment covers ten categories and forces measurable targets. Not "highly available" but 99.9 percent monthly uptime excluding agreed maintenance, with degraded read-only mode acceptable during failover.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

Architecture review checklist across ten evidence-based domains. Solution review template. NFR assessment template. Architecture scorecard with weighted rating and automatic recommendation. Risk register with auto-scoring, RAG status and a live dashboard. Decision log for capturing architecture decision records. Review types and variant checklists for concept, high-level design, detailed design, security, pre-go-live and technical exception reviews. Review report template. An AI companion and prompt library. Three complete worked examples – a CRM replacement, a cloud migration and a SaaS implementation – with every template filled in. Start-here guide and licence.

ONE EXAMPLE DELIBERATELY FAILS

Of the three worked examples, one does not pass. That is intentional. A review framework that has never rejected anything teaches an organisation that the gate is theatre, and most published review material only ever demonstrates approval. Seeing the framework produce a negative verdict is how you learn where the bar actually sits.

WHO IT IS FOR

Solution architects, enterprise architects, architecture managers and design authority chairs.

FORMATS AND LICENCE

Editable Microsoft Word and Excel. Fully white-label – run it as your own review standard.

The accompanying ZIP contains the complete kit: all templates, all three worked examples, the AI companion and the licence.

TOGAF is a trademark of The Open Group. This kit is aligned to but not affiliated with The Open Group.

LICENCE NOTE: This document is supplied under a single-user commercial licence. One purchase covers one named individual, who may edit and rebrand the materials and use them in internal work and in paid client engagements, and may provide clients with completed deliverables. Redistribution of the blank templates, resale, publication, or use by additional users each require a separate licence. Full terms are in the LICENCE file included in the ZIP, and take precedence over the platform default terms.

Source: Best Practices in Enterprise Architecture Word: Architecture Review Kit: Checklist, Scorecard & NFRs Word (DOCX) Document, MethodVault