Enterprise Architecture Redux

Redux comes to us from the Latin reducere – to lead back.

And, that’s what I was reminded of when Jason Bloomberg touched a raw nerve with his Forbes article: Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?.

I think he is pretty harsh in comparing Enterprise Architects to Milton the red stapler guy from the movie Office Space ; “showing up for work day after day, clueless about why he has nothing useful to do.”

But he may be on to something when he says : “…..practice of EA has become all about documentation rather than effecting business change.” That may indeed be the case in some organizations.