Ep. 12 - Ten Things I've Learned

DEC 13, 202151 MIN
What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified

Ep. 12 - Ten Things I've Learned

DEC 13, 202151 MIN

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<p>Here it is - the end (of season 1 ... no worries, we're back in January 2022). In this episode we are mixing up the format a bit and are talking about the 10 things that we learned in 25 years of &nbsp;architecture and process management.</p> <p><strong>Approach / strategy segment</strong></p> <p>Let's talk about the bigger picture, the why and larger setup. What are the thoughts that get organizations started?</p> <ul> <li>Why: You’ll end up paying for it somehow. End of the line in people or risk.</li> <li>Don't do a "big effort upfront"</li> <li>Develop and create in releases / have a release plan</li> <li>Processes and architectures need to be measured</li> </ul> <p><strong>Organizational segment</strong></p> <p>Architectures win and fail with the people. If they don't want to cooperate or be involved you will fail.</p> <ul> <li>It's the people, stupid</li> <li>Do not separate areas of your architecture into different groups</li> <li>Risk &amp; Controls folks are your friends</li> </ul> <p><strong>"How-to" segment</strong></p> <p>Once you get started the task of developing an architecture seems daunting. This segment has a few tips to make it more manageable.</p> <ul> <li>Start small but don't settle on the lowest denominator - choose a tool and have a minimum set of artifact requirements</li> <li>Have the full lifecycle in mind and don't get distracted by the latest tech</li> <li>When developing models do this in multiple iterations (esp. processes)<br> </li> </ul> <p>Please reach out to us by either sending an email to <a href="https://[email protected]/">[email protected]</a> or leaving us a voice message by clicking <a href="https://anchor.fm/whatsyourbaseline/message">here</a>.</p> <p>The &nbsp;full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at <a href="//whatsyourbaseline.com/episode12" target="_blank">whatsyourbaseline.com/episode12</a>.</p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatsyourbaseline/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatsyourbaseline/support</a>