Link: http://weblog.tetradian.com/2013/11/12/saving-ea-from-itself-5-what-next/
This, sadly, is not the blog-post I’d set out to write when I started this brief series.
It’s best summed up in just three words: I give up.
Seven years ago, I set out to save enterprise-architecture from itself. Who was I kidding? No-one but me, really. Idiot…
I’ve probably done some useful stuff in that time, but it feels like it’s time to pull the plug. It still needs doing – no doubt about that – but I’m not the one to do it.
One of the reasons, of course, is that whilst I might perhaps be a reasonably-adequate thinker at times, my soft-skills simply aren’t there. To put it bluntly, I’ve blown it – particularly with Len Fehskens, who deserves and needs a special apology here. Sorry, Len… and apologies to you all, really.
Another reason is cost. This project has cost me seven years of my life, on virtually no income at all. That’s a pretty severe opportunity-cost, and to be frank, I simply can’t afford it any more – not in any sense.
In a way, it doesn’t stop here, of course. I’ve done some reasonable tools over that time, and they’re available here, or in my books, or in the slidedecks on Slideshare. That’s not a bad legacy to leave.
I’ll keep this blog open indefinitely, so you’ll still have access to everything that’s here – don’t worry about that.
But I’ll mostly drop out of the Twitter enterprise-architecture stream (#entarch). And this will be my last blog-post here for a while.
I have a few enterprise-architecture commitments still to run, most of them early in the new year, but that’ll be it. It’s time to do something else: no idea what, as yet, but something else.
Many thanks to you all for tolerating my ‘crazy ideas’ as long as you did – and see you around, perhaps.
Time to go.
