Goebl Wolfgang. Foundations of the Architectural Thinking Framework

Architectural Thinking Association, 2018. — 33 p.Definition
The Architectural Thinking Framework is a truly open, lightweight architectural framework that is based on the experience of many practitioners. It has the goal to ensure that all the solutions of a company fit together in order to balance the dimensions
customer value
finance
sustainability
in a way that maximises the overall value from an enterprise-wide viewpoint in the short and the long term.
Architectural Thinking is not a process or discipline. The Architectural Thinking Framework is a content oriented framework that defines artefacts and their relations that need to be created by various processes (such as 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.