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The dangers of specialism-trolls in enterprise-architecture

December 12, 2014 by Tom Graves

As cross-domain generalists, how can we best cope with narrow-focus specialists who insist that their own domain is the only one that matters? This is a constant problem in enterprise-architectures and the like, not least because we somehow have to…

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