Open Agile Architecture Standard, Version 2.0

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 TransformationPart 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 scalePart 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 deliverablesPart 4: The Ways of Supporting details the techniques and methods that can be used to support architecture activities within an Agile enterpriseThe audience for this document includes:Agilists who need to understand the importance of architecture when shifting...

• Publication date: 26 April 2026
• Page count: 232
• Publisher: Van Haren Publishing
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-13: 9789401814775