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“ While we must acknowledge emergence in design and system development, a little
planning can avoid much waste.
—James Coplien, Lean Architecture
Architectural Runway
Definition: The Architectural Runway consists of the existing code, components, and technical infrastructure needed to implement near-term features with
minimal redesign and delay.
Architectural Runway enables a continuous flow of value through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, providing the technology required to quickly define, build,
validate, and release Features and Capabilities. It also supports the practice of Agile Architecture by allowing an organizationʼs technology landscape to evolve
in response to changing business needs.
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Agile development avoids big design up-front (BDUF) with a simple belief that “the best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams [1].” This yields the practice of emergent design—defining and extending the architecture only as necessary to deliver the next increment of
functionality.
However, emergent design alone cannot handle the complexity of large-scale Solution development. At scale, relying solely on emergent design leads to the
following problems:
Lack of standards increases delivery costs and delays
One-off solutions become difficult to change and maintain
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Systems become vulnerable to security and stability issues
Quality becomes dependent on tribal knowledge
Solution components have poor interoperability and reusability
These problems can result in poor solution performance, unfavorable economic outcomes, and delayed time-to-market. Organizations overcome these
problems by balancing emergent design with intentional architecture, which requires some centralized planning and cross-team coordination. Both are
implemented with Enablers and, together, ‘paveʼ the architectural runway (Figure 1).
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