Launch of the Architectural Thinking Framework®
The Architectural Thinking Association® is proud to launch the first draft of the Architectural Thinking Framework® which is a truly open, lightweight architectural framework that is based on the experience of many practitioners.
The Architectural Thinking Framework® has the goal to ensure that all the solutions of a company fit together in order to balance the dimensions (i) customer value, (ii) finance and (iii) sustainability in a way that maximizes the overall value from an enterprise-wide viewpoint in the short and the long term.
It consists of four parts:
- Lightweight Architectural Model
- Small set of Architectural Maps on enterprise- and solution level
- Architecture Principles
- Integration Points, i.e. interfaces to relevant processes of the enterprise.
The Architectural Thinking Framework® is available in a first draft in our wiki and comes with detailed, practicable how-tos that explain how to model and design architecture maps and how to integrate with the relevant processes (e.g. vision building, strategic planning&governance and solution development). The how-tos are published on our wiki for open participation; everybody is invited to bring in real-world practical experiences there.
Architectural Thinking is not a process or discipline. Instead, it makes use of a content-oriented framework that defines artifacts and their relations that need to be created by various processes (such as strategy, governance or solution development). The Architectural Thinking Framework® enables consistent, connected, company-wide structures that ensure traceability from business vision to technology implementation.
It is lean enough for Agile but works as well with classical project management methods.
If you want to participate in the further development of the Architectural Thinking Framework® read –>this.
