By Ric Phillips
In July this year Forbes published an article by Jason Bloomberg titled:
Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?
I don’t agree with the “completely” part. But it is an effective rhetorical flourish. And I think his premise holds and his argument sound.
The enterprise architecture Bloomberg is critiquing makes artefacts:
Frameworks, models and meta-models, governance policies, two-year road maps, standards, boards, processes, not to mention the BADT domain reference models, repositories, reference architectures, repeatable patterns and the whole enterprise continuum.
The most dominant metaphor – and it is a metaphor – for all this activity is cartography. We imagine ourselves map mappers.
That metaphor lays two traps – and many of us have fallen in.
The first trap is the risk that we spend all our time drawing a map so detailed it is as easy to get lost on the map as it is to get lost in the terrain it represents. More sadly the map may never get enough detail to be useful.
Read the entire article at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/enterprise-architecture-broken-ric-phillips
