Recently, I’ve been reworking & tightening up some earlier ideas and putting them in a ‘Going Digital’ context. I’m posting them on LinkedIn to reach a slightly different audience.
Here are the posts so far:
During the process, I’ve been reading/re-reading some great related articles that discuss agile architecture and the need recognise the business as a complex adaptive system. Here are the links with some favourite quotes:
Is Agile killing EA #1? By Charles Betz “the EA team needs to match the cadence of the Agile teams. This is a central challenge”.
” …if some company’s EA means nothing more than a lot of paperwork that gets in the way of basic goals like working software that keeps customers happy, then we can only hope Agile drives a nail into that coffin. On the other hand, sometimes the paperwork is a good thing. Only an overly dogmatic reading of the Agile Manifesto would lead one to conclude that we don’t need no stinkin’ documentation”.
“Frameworks are cocaine for executives – they give them a huge rush, and then they move to the next framework”.
“The goal of architecture was to create the right emergent behaviours”.
“..it makes more sense for them to pay most attention to the real-world ‘wiggliness’ of organisation: the hidden, messy and informal dynamics of everyday human interaction in which they and everyone else are continuously immersed”.
With the ‘Going Digital’ series, my aim is talk about real-world experiences and emerging techniques for doing “agile architecture’, or business change design, or whatever it gets called in the future. All I know is that it isn’t framework-centric and that many who carry the title Enterprise Architect will have trouble giving up their particular drug of choice! I’m interested to hear what others are doing; what’s working for you – and what doesn’t.
I guess like many of have lived with the ‘EA’ label, I’m tending to avoid the term, so as not to confuse what I do with the framework-centric, heavy modelling, and ‘certified’ practices stuff.
Has anyone seen a good job description? 🙂
Update Feb 27th, 2017: To see where these thoughts now are going, please take a look at the Found In Design un-book and the Horses and Unicorns story.
