Open Agile Architecture? Standard, Version 2.0[ e-boek]

'The Open Agile Architecture? Standard, Version 2.0, a standard of The Open Group, provides guidance for organizations seeking to evolve toward agility at scale while simultaneously leveraging digital technologies to drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and develop competitive advantages. It enables enterprises to accelerate learning cycles, shorten time-to-market, and create environments where Agile and digital capabilities continuously co-create one another.
Version 2.0 represents a substantial evolution from the previous version of the standard, reflecting new structural thinking, stronger alignment with dual transformation, and expanded guidance on organizational agility.
Through its modular structure, this document provides fundamental concepts, practical guidance, and detailed perspectives on experience design, product architecture, operations, and technical systems to support sustainable organizational transformation.
This document is organized as follows:
Part 1: The Agile Way of Thinking establishes the fundamental concepts of the dual Digital and Agile Transformation, demonstrating why organizational agility is essential as a key enabler for Digital Transformation
Part 2: The Agile Enterprise outlines the key capabilities needed for an Agile organization, including organizational structures, strategic approaches, transformation methodologies, and governance models required to sustain agility at scale
Part 3: The Agile Architecture Capability describes the ways of working with respect to architecture within an Agile enterprise, including Agile Architecture building blocks, intentional architecture, continuous architectural refactoring, and supporting techniques and deliverables
Part 4: The Ways of Supporting details the techniques and methods that can be used to support architecture activities within an Agile enterprise
The audience for this document includes:
∗ Agilists who need to understand the importance of architecture when shifting toward an Agile at scale model, and who want to learn architecture skills
∗ Enterprise Architects, solution architects, security architects, and software architects who want to stay relevant in an Agile at scale world and need to learn new architecture skills for the digital age
∗ Business managers, business executives, and technical leaders who need to learn the importance of the architecture discipline, and who need to influence architecture decisions'