Wasn't There A Commercial About This?
As a customer, I was so impressed with the quality of their work, I joined their company!
Departing my previous employer certainly wasn't an act of prescience, since the undercurrents of certain trends always rise to the top in public companies, it's just that the public is the last to know. From my own perspective, my work there was just one more experience that further convinces me that the practice of enterprise architecture needs to be completely divorced from the IT function in order to be effective. Moreover, enterprise architecture must be seamlessly integrated with a mature, portfolio management practice in order to provide the business stakeholders with the degree of insight and transparency it needs in order to make timely and accurate business decisions.
Anyhow, I now have the opportunity to not only help make this enterprise agile through architecture but, I can help others through leading by example.
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Hi Bill
I don't believe you really mean that enterprise architecture should always be outsourced, but it's a very interesting view that it should be separated from the IT function, even if still internal - I like the idea very much since architects are the drivers of change and serve the business primarily and, therefore, should not have too overt a loyalty to the IT department.
Good luck in your new role.
I have enjoyed reading your blog so far, and maybe you will have the opportunity to be even more experimental in your views now.
Keep blogging.
Alastair
Now your depth and breadth of experience can be useful to more enterprises. Loss of your old company, is a gain for many more companies.
Hope to see more insights into EA on your blog, from this new perspective.
Now your depth and breadth of experience can be useful to more enterprises. Loss of your old company, is a gain for many more companies.
Hope to see more insights into EA on your blog, from this new perspective.
All the best in your new job.
-Vilas.
Good luck in the new position. I jumped over to the consulting world last year, and it's been very interesting being on the other side of the table, so to speak. Keep up the blog.
Alastair, I don't think EA should ever be outsourced under any circumstances. I believe it is too critical to the central function of helping the business create assets to wholly trust to outsiders. In my new position as a consultant, I hope to coach EAs on how to maximize their effectiveness and, when necessary, when to cut their losses, too. EA is dynamic, not a set of static, write-once documents.
Vilas and Todd, thanks for the words of support! Happily, my new employer encourages participation in blogs and other public forums so, I look forward to lots of interesting conversations.
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