Video Notes - Architecture In The Digital Age

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Link: Architecture In The Digital Age

Presenters:
  • Ryan Schmierer - Director of Operations, Sparx Services North America
  • Scott Hebbard - Communications Manager, Sparx Systems
Notes:
  • Change & Opportunity (and risk)
  • Where we want to be -> Business Enabler
  • Critical Skills
    • Critical Thinking
    • Complex Decision Making
    • Problem Solving
  • Data is important
  • Process & Technology are being commoditise - Importance increase in the ability to put blocks together.
  • IT Organisations are changing
    • Command & Control -> Controlled Chaos
    • Resistance to structore
    • Disruption.  Architects guide organisation through change.
  • Puzzle Pieces
    • Business Goals
    • Decision Support Tools
    • Culture & Behaviour Change
    • Reference Models
    • Aggressive Timelines
    • Modeling Languages
    • Resources and Budget
    • Architecture Standards
    • Technology Constraints
    • Architect Skills
  • Agility
    • Agile Software Development
    • Agile Architecture (the means)
    • Enterprise Business Agility (the goal)
    • Continues Improvement (the mindset)
  • Architecture + Project Teams + Business + Operations
  • Fragmented -> Integrated
    • Today
      • Ivory Tower Architecture
      • Separate teams
      • Silos
    • New role - Digital Practitioner (see open group)
    • Move away from functional siloes, move towards integrated models
    • Keeping track of the whole system. EA for architects, Prolaborate for everyone else.
  • Outlook
    • Architecture practices likely to be disbanded - Changing, pendulum swinging. Architects sent to business functions.  Federated architectures.
    • Architects likely to get laid off.  Key is to focus on what you may in the immediate future.
    • Future looks like - roles are shifting
      • Enterprise Architects - Execs claiming role and focus
      • Business Architects - Real time focus
      • Information Architects - Expert on data
      • IT Architects
      • Solution Architects - 3rd Party Composition
      • Infrastructure Architects - Cloud and SaaS
    • Stop trying to make everyone else think like an architect - People don't want to see how the sausage is made.
    • Integrations - Bringing operations data into EA to analyse it.

[Originally posted here.]

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