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Once you start working in architecture within a company you will find that when you have engineered a solution it is often taken on with a lot of support by management, but while that support is not withdrawn you will find it sidelined over the next time. The reason for that phenomenon is the difference in thinking. A more scientific or engineering will think around i a pattern of: “Here are the facts. What conclusion can we draw from it?” and once the conclusions lead toward a solution you will stick with it and move onwards.
Most managers on the other hand have a very different way of thinking usually called the creative way or to put int against the same sample as above their pattern is best described as: “Here are the conclusions. What facts can we find to support this?”. So often you will find yourself as an architect exploring the fact and requirements after you have created the solution. This is obvious when you are engaged in project management that you as an engineer a departing that people will define facts or requirements after the conclusion. And since most scientific orientated people will or worse cannot understand the other way of thinking they will endorse a freeze on fact finding after a conclusion as been reached. This however means to the other side of the creative thinkers that the engineers are just not listening and as such the much debated line between between IT and the business is created.
Now there two ways around this either that IT will isolate itself developing something people may or may not want or that the creative people are sidelining IT on the the one hand or that both sides start towards acknowledging the thinking of the other side. The second idea is usually never followed as it takes much longer and requires empathy on both sides. as one side will usually just insists that they way of thinking is the only grown up way and that to think in another way a sign for low maturity.
