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Deliverables

The curriculum covers what an architect should know. This covers what an architect actually hands over: 22 artifacts, each with a worked example, a note on when it is worth producing, who reads it, and the ways it usually goes wrong. Filter by the artifact's type, the kind of engagement that calls for it, the stack or industry it is drawn against, or the audience it is written for.

Identify the deliverable → 18 diagrams, shown one at a time with the answer withheld. Nothing to submit.

Type Any Structural View4 Behavioural View3 Data View3 Deployment & Infrastructure View3 Security View2 Governance Artifact3 Planning Artifact2 Analysis Artifact2
Use case Any Greenfield Build12 Legacy Migration12 Cloud Landing Zone7 Data Platform Build3 AI / ML Platform1 Integration Programme4 Security Uplift6 Cost Optimisation4 Merger & Acquisition Integration4 Regulatory Remediation4 Resilience Programme4 Vendor Selection3
Technology Any Cloud-Agnostic22 Azure2 AWS2 Kubernetes2 Databricks1 Hybrid1
Domain Any Cross-Industry22 Banking & Payments3 Healthcare & Pharma3
Audience Any CxO9 Architecture Review Board17 Engineering14 Operations & SRE8 Security5 Finance4 Regulator & Audit3

2 of 22 deliverables shown. 

quadrantChart
  title Application portfolio — value against technical health
  x-axis "Poor technical health" --> "Good technical health"
  y-axis "Low business value" --> "High business value"
  quadrant-1 Invest
  quadrant-2 Migrate or re-engineer
  quadrant-3 Eliminate
  quadrant-4 Tolerate
  "Order management": [0.28, 0.92]
  "Payment gateway": [0.81, 0.95]
  "Customer portal": [0.74, 0.78]
  "Pricing engine": [0.22, 0.84]
  "Mainframe billing": [0.14, 0.88]
  "Legacy CRM": [0.19, 0.34]
  "Reporting portal": [0.31, 0.26]
  "Expenses tool": [0.68, 0.22]
  "Intranet wiki": [0.72, 0.18]
  "Partner gateway": [0.44, 0.66]
Analysis Artifact

Application Portfolio Heat Map

Every application placed on business value against technical health, so that invest, tolerate, migrate and eliminate become positions rather than opinions.
Application Portfolio Management Discovery