Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback

re: Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback

Alan Inglis — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:57:41 GMT

I covered a related topic in my blog "Get out there!" some time ago which talked about your item 2 - participation. It talks about the practical day to day things that my team did to be relevant and to get feedback.

re: Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback

Nick Malik — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:17:43 GMT

@Michael,

OK, so there's purpose and role and level of detail. That isn't the point of my post. If I produce a model that injects insight and communicates decisions, a model that the IT teams understand, that doesn't mean they will use it.

Sure, I can "govern" them into it with a hammer. That doesn't work to build trust. We need to get 75% of the projects using the models because the WANT to before I can worry about governing the other 25%. We tried a governance-first approach and it failed.

The other choice, and the one we should have been doing all along, is not to govern, but to listen. Get the dev leads and solution architects to have a stake in the success of EA. Make their lives easier. Take fights off of their hands. Give them a shield that management respects.

An architecture that no one uses is an architecture... it just is not an actionable one.

That is what I'm trying to say.

re: Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback

michiel.malotaux@gartner.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:18:02 GMT

The purpose of EA is "INSIGHT, TO DECIDE (FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS)". Use this as criterion to judge EA: if the stakeholder does not understand it, IT IS NO ARCHITECTURE!

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