Continuous Design is an approach that aims to allow DevOps teams to briefly think in advance about the contours of the information system to be realized and to allow the design to grow during the Agile project (emerging design). This prevents interface risks and guarantees essential knowledge transfer to support management an compliance with legislation and regulations. Elements that guarantee the continuity of an organization. This book is a publication in the Continuous Everything series. The content consists of the Continuous Design Pyramid model in which the following design views are defined: business, solution, design, requirements, test and code view. The Continuous Design encompasses the entire lifecycle of the information system. The first three views are completed based on modern design techniques such as value stream mapping and use cases. However, the emphasis of the effective application of a Continuous Design lies in the realization of the information system, namely by integrating the design in the Behavior Driven Development and Test Drive Development as well as in Continuous Documentation. With this Agile approach to design, you have a powerful tool al your disposal to get a grip on an Agile development project.

Knowledge sharing is my passion. In the last decade I have published a number of books and articles in which I shared my experiences with you. Feel free to use these best practices at your own work. The publications are no replacement for the commonly used frameworks like ITIL, BiSL and ASL. They are add-ons to subjects that are not addressed in these frameworks or not explained well enough to be of help at your work. In this publication, the bold hyperlinks refer to the training- and masterclasses that I teach via training institutes like ITMG, and in which the related book is offered to you. If you would like to order an book please do so via the website www.leonon.nl. When clicking on a book icon in the book chapters or appendix B and C you will be directed to the relevant page. I hope you enjoy reading my book and articles and wish you good luck, especially if you are applying the best practices within your organisation. If you have questions or comments, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. A lot of time has been spent in making this book as complete and consistent as possible. Should you find any shortcomings, I would ask you please let me know ensuring that these items shall be processed with the next edition of this book. Bart de Best, Zoetermeer