IT:AD:Documentation:Architecture Description Document (ADD)

* Problem Description * Stakeholders and their concerns * Issues / Scenarios to be addressed * Business Vision Statement * Business Vision Diagram * Change Drivers & Opportunities * Objectives * Environment and Process Models * Process Description * Process Steps Mapped to Environment * Process Steps Mapped to People * Information Flow * Actor and their Roles and responsibilities * Resulting Architecture Model * Constraints * IT Principles * Architecture Supporting the Process * Requirements Mapped to Architecture

Contents of an ADD are (from TOGAF): * Scope * Goals, objectives, and constraints * Architecture principles * Baseline Architecture * Architecture models (for each state to be modeled): * Business Architecture models * Data Architecture models * Application Architecture models * Technology Architecture models * Rationale and justification for architectural approach * Mapping to Architecture Repository: * Mapping to Architecture Landscape * Mapping to reference models * Mapping to standards * Re-use assessment * Gap analysis * Impact assessment * Transition Architecture: * Definition of transition states * Business Architecture for each transition state * Data Architecture for each transition state * Application Architecture for each transition state * Technology Architecture for each transition state

That does not have a good mapping to R&W, however. From R&W Business views Context view