The Zachman framework has the following limitations:
- It can lead to a process-heavy/documentation-heavy approach as there is a lot of data that needs to be filled out in the cells that are used to capture the data pertaining to the framework
- It does not provide a step-by-step process for designing a new architecture
- It does not provide any guidelines for assessing the suitability of a future architecture for an organization
- It does not provide a framework for implementing governance in an architecture