These items and my specific recommendations
appear below:
3. Architecture Council is ineffective
If you can't convince the Strategic Developers to appropriately staff the
Architecture Council, then find someone who can. Do not weaken the process
to the point where it no longers requires an effective Architecture Council.
5. The level of framework-ness (to coin a phrase) across projects is highly
variable
As I understand "framework-ness", this is an explicit responsibility of the
Architecture Council. Establish an effective Architecture Council, as
suggested in #3.