Packaging the Portfolio for Design Review
Explore how to combine reference architecture, executive briefing, and a design-review rubric into a comprehensive portfolio that enables consistent, evidence-driven AI system approvals. Understand how to ensure artifact consistency, reconciled terminology, and enforce reusable evaluation criteria for generative AI proposals.
Every piece from this chapter, the reference architecture, the golden paths, the operating model, the diagram set and ADR index, the executive briefing, now exists as its own artifact. None of it is a repeatable review process until it gets packaged together with a rubric a board can apply consistently to the next proposal, not just this one. Build a combined, review-ready package made up of a reference architecture, an executive briefing, and a design-review rubric that a review board can use to accept, reject, or request changes based on evidence, explicit controls, and unit economics rather than preference or vendor enthusiasm.
Hold the package to three testable acceptance criteria. It must be reusable across teams and use cases. It must show where a control lives in the architecture rather than implying it. It must produce a default evidence output a reviewer can inspect without rebuilding the system. ...