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From Richard Veryard on Architecture
There is a common view in the enterprise architecture world that complexity is a big problem, perhaps the biggest problem, and that the primary task of enterprise architecture is to deal with this complexity.
- "The most pressing problem of the organization is complexity. Complexity is the primary responsibility of the enterprise architect." (Roger Sessions, Controlling Complexity in Enterprise Architecture pdf June 2007)
- "Enterprises are instances of complex adaptive systems having many interacting subcomponents whose interactions yield complex behaviors. Enterprise Architecture is a way of understanding and managing such complexity." (Beryl Bellman Managing Organizational Complexity pdf FEAC Oct 2009)
Indeed, I'm sure I've said things like this myself. But if complexity is a problem, whose problem is it? I am not seeing a huge rush of businessmen hiring enterprise architects just to deal with The Complexity Problem. Usually they have much more practical problems that they want addressing.
