Architect the future. Unlock product excellence.
Continuous Architecture empowers you with sharp ideas, pragmatic rituals, and hands-on methods to tackle your real challenges. It helps you design agile operating models that scale, align teams around outcomes, and turn vision into delivery. Grounded in modern engineering. Powered by clarity, not control. Open, adaptable, and made for leaders who build the future — not just run the present.
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Problem discovery
What are the biggest challenges your company is facing? Engineers and architects are great at solving problems, but they don’t always question how those problems are defined. If you spend time solving the wrong problem, you waste time and resources. That’s why Continuous Architecture encourages you to pay close attention to how problems are framed — because the way you define a problem heavily shapes the solutions you find.
- Sometimes, just looking at a problem differently can lead to completely new and better answers
- Finding the real problem starts with careful observation and asking the right questions
- It also takes an open mind to see things from new angles and think outside the box
Framework
The tools and kits we have created can be used in isolation or they can work together to help the enterprise change to be more successful. In a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex or Ambiguous world, it is important to bring structure while enabling business and operational agility. The Continuous Architecture Framework (CAF) combines intentional architecture and emergent design to help autonomous teams align around a common purpose. Team autonomy is a pre-requisite to speed because it reduces coordination activities that slow down teams. On the other hand, when autonomous teams are mis-aligned it increases the risk of delivering poor client and employee experience due to ineffective coordination. The CAF helps maintain a healthy balance between autonomy and alignment along the enterprise journey toward an agile @scale operating model.
- The equation we’re proposing is ALIGNMENT + AUTONOMY > CONTROL.
Roles
What are the roles we propose in the Continuous Architecture operating model.
- Enterprise Architect
- Product Architect
- Fullstack Architect
Rituals
Architecting is not only about tools, kits and practices. Equally important is the time we spend together working on the architecture around some key rituals. The objective is to foster collaboration in teams on architecture activities.
- Team Autonomy Readiness
- Architecture Kata
- Weekly Architecture Meeting
- Architecture Peer Review
- Architecture Workshop
Practices
Here is the toolbox we have created to help teams realizing their architecture activities. A set of tools and kits that can be used
- Architecture Runway
- Architecture Decision Record (ADR)
- Scoping 360
- Fitness Function
- Team Topologies
- Value Proposition Canvas
Events
References
When we decided to start this Continuous Architecture journey, we discovered that the term have been already coined by Murat Erder and Pierre Pureur. Back in 2015, they published their first book Continuous Architecture: Sustainable Architecture in an Agile and Cloud-Centric World and they are working on a second one Continuous Architecture in Practice. We can say that Murat and Pierre through their work were a source of inspiration for us. We got in touch with them to make sure it was ok to reuse the Continuous Architecture term and they agreed. We’re very grateful to them and the least we could do is to reference their work. If you have a chance to have a look at it, you’ll see that we share many things: spirit, ideas, philosophy & experiences.
Continuous Architecture
Several Continuous Architecture’s maintainers contributed to the development of the Open Agile ArchitectureTM Standard. Though the Continuous Architecture Toolkit and Framework was developed independently, we believe the two bodies of knowledge share many common principles and are therefore consistent and complementary.
Open Agile Architecture
Continuous Architecture toolkit leverages the architectural runway, a practice coming from the SAFe and Scaled Agile Framework ® SAFe and Scaled Agile Framework are registered trademarks of Scaled Agile, Inc.
SAFe and Scaled Agile Framework
Domain-Design Design Crew is an open source project aiming to help adopt the famous Eric Evans’ DDD approach. DDD-crew is really an inspirational source for us and we hope we can contribute back.
