There’s an interesting article by Jason Bloomberg in Forbes, that has been doing the rounds in the EA community, entitled “Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?” I find it an interesting article because while he makes some very good points about the state of Enterprise Architecture, I would like to go a bit further in addressing the factors behind this.
To start with, the article observes that the majority of enterprise architects either end up just documenting their current state, or don’t even get that far before they are cancelled. “Stories of stalled or misdirected Enterprise Architecture initiatives vastly outnumber bona fide examples of Enterprise Architecture efforts leading to measurable business value.” I can confirm this. I have seen more than my share of people with the title “Director of Enterprise Architecture” who are basically sitting on their own, drawing diagrams or running a “body shop” of solution architects.
Read the entire blog post at http://blog.orbussoftware.com/jason-bloombergs-thoughts-enterprise-architecture-forbes/.
