Have you ever made an elaborate architecture, and then learned a decision was made based on completely different criteria? You are not alone. This is a common experience among architects – even though few talk about it. You can be angry with the ignorant and short-sighted leaders, but to be more constructive: would a different…
Belief #1 Best architectures emerge from interdependent collaboration
Have you seen imbalanced architectures that are not fit for purpose, because they were created with siloed perspectives? For example, we have witnessed an Information Architecture Organisation defining their own meta-model, design documents, own tools, including its own architecture governance setup based on “data ownership”, and finally expanding into covering elements such as business rules…
Architecture beliefs and why they matter
Have you ever thought about how often the “trends” changes in your organisation? It is fascinating just how fast many organisations jump aboard the newest management hype, be it methods, technologies or organisational frameworks with the promise of solving all the problems we have struggled with for decades. Not long ago everyone needed an Enterprise…