SDAF resource library

Choose the depth you need.

Start with a short orientation, move into the complete method, explore organisational adoption, or examine the decision concepts and worked examples that make SDAF practical.

Core publications

The authoritative method and adoption model

Zenodo provides persistent, citable publication records. GitHub provides supporting material, diagrams, releases and public discussion.

Framework · Version 1.0

Complete SDAF publication

The full decision method, evidence model, lifecycle approach, governance controls and annexes.

Open the citable releaseEnterprise adoption

Enterprise Integration Playbook

Integrate SDAF with architecture governance, APM, FinOps, procurement and lifecycle decisions.

Open the PlaybookOpen repository

GitHub source and releases

Review the supporting documents, diagrams, change history and open issues.

Browse GitHub

Insights

Signature concepts explained in plain language

Each article addresses one decision-governance idea independently, with links back to the method and Studio.

Exploratory insight · New

Efficiency Is Not Durable Value

What AI workforce transformation reveals about resilience, shared dependencies and material consequences in architecture decisions.

Read the insightAdoption principle

Sustainability Visibility Over Sustainability Priority

Why sustainability does not need to lead every decision—but must remain visible within it.

Read the insightDecision assurance

Coverage Is Not Readiness

Why complete evidence does not automatically make a decision defensible or approvable.

Read the insightEvidence quality

Impact Is Not Confidence

Keep the scale of an impact separate from the strength of the evidence supporting it.

Read the insightGovernance

The Reviewable Decision Record

What a sustainable architecture decision must preserve so it can be challenged and defended later.

Read the insight

Worked example

See how the decision structure behaves in practice

Worked examples are illustrative rather than guarantees. Their value lies in making boundaries, evidence, trade-offs and conditions visible.

Infrastructure lifecycle

Extend or replace enterprise servers?

A decision pattern that exposes operational savings, embodied impacts, cost, evidence gaps and approval conditions.

Explore the worked exampleInteractive application

Studio reference assessments

Load completed examples and examine the evidence, calculations and governance outcome.

Open Studio

Related public methods

Specialist sources that may inform an assessment

These resources are independently governed. Their inclusion does not imply endorsement, equivalence or automatic SDAF conformity.

Practitioners remain responsible for confirming applicability, version, system boundary, licensing and evidence quality before using an external method or result within SDAF.

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