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Open Agile Architecture

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Published by The Open Group, December 2020.

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A Standard of The Open Group

Open Agile Architecture

ISBN: 1-947754-62-1

Document Number: C208

Published by The Open Group, September 2020.

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This document is The Open Group Open Agile Architecture standard, also known as The Open Group O-AA standard. It has been developed and approved by The Open Group.

This document follows a modular structure and is organized in the following parts:

Part 1: The O-AA Core describes the fundamental concepts of Agile Architecture

Part 2: The O-AA Building Blocks describes the O-AA building blocks

Examples and case studies are provided as illustrations to foster understanding of the standard. Examples and case studies are not a normative part of the standard and therefore do not include requirements.

The target 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 who need to learn new architecture skills for the digital age

Business managers and executives who need to learn the importance of the architecture discipline, and who need to influence architecture decisions

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