Subject: What’s New in EDGY: Open Patterns, New Tools, and the EDGY Sandbox

Hi Friend,


At this year’s Intersection 25 conference in Brussels, our co-presidents Milan Guenther and Wolfgang Goebl unveiled exciting updates to the EDGY toolset in their session "What’s New in EDGY?"


If you couldn’t join us in person, here’s a quick recap of what’s new — and how you can explore it all yourself.


Enterprise Design Patterns are now Open Source!

The complete collection of 35 Enterprise Design Patterns is now freely available on our website. These Patterns capture the practical wisdom of enterprise designers, architects, and change makers — distilled into actionable guidance you can apply in your own work.


They help you address common obstacles, build the relationships needed for collaboration, and apply experience-based, pragmatic design practices.


You can also still get the complete collection as a beautifully designed book, available both in print and as a pdf.

New EDGY Tool: The Capability Modelling Guidelines

Also announced at Intersection 25, the Capability Modelling Guidelines are a new open resource for designing purpose-aligned and adaptive enterprises.


Most enterprises struggle to turn strategic intent into coordinated action. The Guidelines provide a structured approach to design all elements of your enterprise's architecture as organic modules aligned with your purposes.


Created by Jim Dowling and Wolfgang Goebl, the guidelines are now freely available as part of EDGY’s open toolset.

Introducing the EDGY Sandbox

The EDGY Sandbox is our new open space for experimentation, collaboration, and co-creation. It brings together emerging and evolving EDGY tools - built on top of our shared Language Foundations - and opens the door for contributors and toolmakers to expand the EDGY ecosystem. Several tools are already available in the sandbox, and more are on the way.


Got an idea for a tool? Or want to expand on something that’s already out there? Get in touch with us!

You can revisit the full “What’s New in EDGY?” session from Intersection 25 on our YouTube channel.


Thank you to everyone who joined us in Brussels and continues to shape the world of EDGY. Stay tuned — more is coming soon!


Warm regards,

Wolfgang & Milan


Unveiled at Intersection 25, the EDGY Capability Modelling Guidelines are now available to everyone! Discover a new open resource for designing purpose-aligned and adaptive enterprises.


Most enterprises struggle with executing their purposes. Strategic intent, expressed in the language of a few visionaries, tends to get lost when many co-creators attempt to operationalise it. Enterprise architectures are rarely designed in a systematic and coherent way based on shared purposes.


The consequences are severe:

  • Project portfolios not aligned with strategy

  • Investments wasted on improvements that don’t matter

  • Organisations structured more by politics than purpose

  • Costly, misaligned IT built in isolation

If you (like many of us) work in a company that shows these symptoms, then the Capability Guidelines help you design all elements of your enterprise's architecture as organic modules aligned with your purposes.


Inside, you’ll find guidance on...


How to structure a Capability Map: Design capabilities as organic modules, group them into meaningful categories, identify shared capabilities, ...


How to use capabilities to align investments with purpose: Seek outside inspiration, co-create from both top-down and bottom-up, deal with resistance, ...


Created by Jim Dowling and Wolfgang Goebl, the guidelines are now freely available as part of EDGY’s open toolset.


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