"Architectural Runway" refers to the enabling materials available for the delivery of the next phase of value-delivery. If you have the infrastructure ready and the components pre-built, you can quickly put together the pieces necessary to implement (whatever your deliverable is). You may need, from time to time, to focus on building new architectural runway. This is sort of like a very small-scale version of Apples "tick-tock" release schedule for their stuff. Build new features, then enhance them and lay groundwork. Architectural runway is sort of the opposite of [[Technical Debt]], come to think of it. **** # More ## Source - Overheard its use and asked ## Related - [[SAFe]]