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The Architecture Pattern Pack

Seven artifacts from a full TOGAF engagement — each one a blank template with the worked example beside it.

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What's inside

1. 1

   Stakeholder map & concerns matrix

   Phase A

   Who can sink this, and what they actually care about — including the concerns that conflict, and who ruled on them.

2. 2

   Architecture principles as decision filters

   Phase A

   Principles that rule something out. If you can't name a decision it forbids, it's a value, not a principle.

3. 3

   Statement of Architecture Work

   Phase A

   The scope fence — where the "explicitly out" section is longer than the "in" section, on purpose.

4. 4

   Business capability map

   Phase B

   What the business does, independent of who does it — and the contested capabilities that are the whole point.

5. 5

   Data duplication audit

   Phase C

   Nine systems, one customer, no agreement about which is right. Turns "our data is a mess" into fundable work.

6. 6

   Architecture contract

   Phase G

   Bidirectional. Delivery commits, and architecture commits back — with a consequence when architecture is the blocker.

7. 7

   Dispensation register

   Phase G

   Scoped, expiring exceptions. Governance with no escape hatch doesn't produce compliance, it produces invisibility.

Where it comes from

These are the actual deliverables produced across the TOGAF 10 in Practice series, run end to end on Karoo Retail Group — a fictional composite retailer built from patterns common to mid-size retail estates. The company is invented. The problems are not.

Each artifact names the episode that builds it, if you want the reasoning rather than just the shape.