Architecture development steps

I used mind-mapping technique to represent and structure the architecture development
steps.

It is being influenced by TOGAF and RUP architecture development guidelines.

Software Quality vs Design Principle, Pattern and Practice Catalog

The Software System usually has many quality attributes, such as Maintainance, Performance, Security, Usabality etc. It is very important to have catalog of patterns, principles or other related practices which is being mapped to software quality attributes.

For example; I tried like this:

Utility Projects and Strategic Projects

I like the idea of project catagorization like utility projects and strategic projects. This helps organizations to spend their IT investments rather carefully; again it is inline with application portfolio of an enterprise.

But enterprise can really focus their energy and investments on strategically aligned projects so that competetive advanatages are more.