Principal-led architecture for critical systems

Resources

Prepare the decision before the engagement begins

Use decision guides, checklists, templates, and review worksheets to identify missing owners, evidence, boundaries, and next actions. The materials do not confer certification.

Decision toolsPrepare the decision owner
Purpose
Use checklists, templates, and worksheets to identify evidence, unknowns, responsibilities, and next actions.
Boundary
Resources support preparation and review; they do not confer certification or self-attestation.

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Decision guide

AI Production Readiness Evidence Pack

A structured evidence inventory for system boundaries, representative tests, human authority, failure taxonomy, release criteria, and unresolved risk.

Review worksheet

AI System Intake & Release Decision Record

A reusable record for registering an AI system, defining its authority and dependency boundary, capturing evaluation evidence, and recording a bounded release, pause, rollback, or retirement decision.

Decision guide

Modernization Risk Review

A pre-commitment review for legacy Microsoft modernization risk, parity evidence, reversibility, and decision ownership.

Decision guide

Enterprise Proposal and SOW Guide

A buyer-oriented checklist for turning discovery into a bounded statement of work with measurable artifacts and explicit exclusions.

Decision guide

Paid Pilot Charter Template

A charter template for a time-bounded paid pilot with a named business problem, owner, system boundary, measures, artifacts, and conversion decision.

Checklist

Technical Vendor Review Checklist

A technical review checklist for software, cloud, AI, and integration vendors.

Review worksheet

Long-Term Capability Review

A non-certifying worksheet for reviewing business behavior, system knowledge, evidence, human authority, learning, ownership, and continuity before a major modernization or AI decision.

Design worksheet

Human Capability Safeguards for AI-Assisted Work

A design worksheet for deciding when AI should answer directly, provide a hint, ask for a first attempt, require verification, or route the task to a human.

Decision group

AI readiness and review

Prepare production, evaluation, human-review, and procurement decisions.

Decision guide

AI Production Readiness Evidence Pack

A structured evidence inventory for system boundaries, representative tests, human authority, failure taxonomy, release criteria, and unresolved risk.

Review worksheet

AI System Intake & Release Decision Record

A reusable record for registering an AI system, defining its authority and dependency boundary, capturing evaluation evidence, and recording a bounded release, pause, rollback, or retirement decision.

Decision guide

Paid Pilot Charter Template

A charter template for a time-bounded paid pilot with a named business problem, owner, system boundary, measures, artifacts, and conversion decision.

Decision group

Modernization and delivery

Discover hidden behavior, control sequencing, and retain parity evidence.

Decision guide

Modernization Risk Review

A pre-commitment review for legacy Microsoft modernization risk, parity evidence, reversibility, and decision ownership.

Decision group

Procurement and teaming

Clarify technical evidence, proposal boundaries, and partner responsibilities.

Decision guide

Enterprise Proposal and SOW Guide

A buyer-oriented checklist for turning discovery into a bounded statement of work with measurable artifacts and explicit exclusions.

Checklist

Technical Vendor Review Checklist

A technical review checklist for software, cloud, AI, and integration vendors.

Decision group

Long-term capability building

Review continuity, durable system state, human capability, and client-owned handoff.

Review worksheet

Long-Term Capability Review

A non-certifying worksheet for reviewing business behavior, system knowledge, evidence, human authority, learning, ownership, and continuity before a major modernization or AI decision.

Design worksheet

Human Capability Safeguards for AI-Assisted Work

A design worksheet for deciding when AI should answer directly, provide a hint, ask for a first attempt, require verification, or route the task to a human.

How to use the library

  • Name the decision and decision owner
  • Mark unknown and not applicable rather than guessing
  • Retain evidence links and review dates
  • Use related services when direct system analysis is required
  • Move confidential material to an approved channel only after qualification
Boundary: These materials prepare a decision. They do not certify maturity, compliance, security, procurement status, accessibility, or production readiness.

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