ZAF / ARCHITECTURE DOSSIER

Zawatu Architecture Framework

A chapter-based architecture dossier: context, assessment, evidence, design, responsibility and executive decisions.

A working document for decisions and delivery.

Read in sequence to follow the reasoning, or open a chapter for the decision you need to prepare. Chapters contain analysis, recommendations, expected artifacts and acceptance conditions.

Supporting reference study · Public reference edition 1.0 · 5 November 2026 · Fictional institutional example. No client outcome or deployment is claimed.

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  1. 01

    Executive purpose and institutional promise

    What this dossier is for · The promise to protect · Executive assessment

  2. 02

    Institutional context and business capabilities

    Begin with a decision, not an application inventory · Stakeholders and authority · Capability and responsibility map

  3. 03

    Current-state assessment and evidence register

    Separate observation, testimony and assumption · Assess one complete transaction · Examine the system as operated

  4. 04

    Gap analysis and risk prioritization

    A gap is relative to an agreed outcome · Prioritize consequences and uncertainty · Follow the dependency chain

  5. 05

    Architecture principles and quality scenarios

    Principles must constrain a real decision · Turn qualities into scenarios · Security and continuity can conflict

  6. 06

    Business domains and shared platform capabilities

    Separate what changes for different reasons · Responsibility boundaries · Share capabilities without creating a bottleneck

  7. 07

    Target architecture and end-to-end behaviour

    Recommendation and rationale · Logical architecture · Successful journey and rejected journey

  8. 08

    Data architecture, ownership and trustworthy reporting

    Assign authority before designing a warehouse · Information model · Source-to-report lineage

  9. 09

    Integration, APIs and event contracts

    Distinguish a command from a fact · Contract fields and semantics · Commit and delivery sequence

  10. 10

    Security, trust boundaries and data sovereignty

    Security is a responsibility model · Trust and information boundaries · Threat-informed design

  11. 11

    Infrastructure, delivery and service continuity

    Define the operating envelope · Candidate deployment view · Recovery objectives and cost

  12. 12

    Governance, platform ownership and operating model

    Architecture needs a decision system · Responsibility matrix · Architecture decision lifecycle

  13. 13

    Technology mapping, economics and decision records

    Choose an implementation for a capability · Technology mapping · Decision records

  14. 14

    Transition roadmap, verification and acceptance

    Move through evidence gates · Phased delivery · Migration and coexistence

  15. 15

    Future evolution and executive decision package

    Preserve principles, revise implementations · Evolution triggers · Executive decision package

Method and application

The dossier documents the method. The worked-case summary follows its application to one journey. Client-specific material remains separate from this public edition.

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