Entreprise Architect

The Enterprise Architect establishes a technology strategy and roadmap that enables a portfolio to support current and future business capabilities.

Architecte d'entreprise

stratégie Si au regard de la stratégie d'entreprise
urbanisation des SI et carto des capacités métier
contruction des cadres et référentiels d'architecture
mise en oeuvre des outillages d'AE
veille et accompagnement des projets critiques

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source :Why Do I Do This? - Architecture & Governance Magazine (architectureandgovernance.com)

date : 2023-08-03

I started IASA Global because I believe that architects, as a single body, should be at the center of technology and society; that we have a societal contract to be experts in how technology impacts business, value, health, human safety, law and security; and that we are positioned best to make sweeping changes.

Here are the top issues I’d like to address in these articles:

Technology adoption and spending is ludicrously broken. We follow marketing dollars. Stakeholders make investment decisions based on hype or emotion or ego. Architects have very little voice inside their companies, or are ignored completely. The industry is built on fads and huge IT spend.
Vendors and large consulting companies have WAY too much power. I do not believe the employees are “bad,” but this is like asking the fox where the chickens can sleep safely. Marketing dollars control almost everything we learn, search for, and deliver. I just watched a GenAI marketing pitch on building AI reports. It all worked so “magically.” It looked so good I almost forgot I watched the same damn thing with portals, reporting tools, dashboards, time and time again.
Beneficial trends take decades to roll out and people still do them horribly. The quality of technique adoption is terrible. Think of agile. After a quarter of a century the number of excellent adoptions is marginal at best. Why? If we adopted medical techniques this way we would all be dead.
Technologists still don’t function as a part of business. Our tools are the most important in the world to business success, but we still function as order takers? Other businesspeople still take credit for the wins and blame us for the losses? WTF?
Contracts and execution have no individual liability. The assumption is to “build it with the cheapest people and govern them (police the idiots)” not “build it with the best people who know what they are doing already.” Consulting organizations are body shops that send us school buses full of fresh graduates to make their big mistakes on OUR systems. There is no standard of skills even for their “architects” since they make them up themselves. And we are ok with that? Sorry, all of you lovely organizations and your billions of dollars of client money which you spend on marketing. I’ve seen how you train architects. And I’ve seen how it changes with the internal political waters. I’ve seen how you change titles to sell more! Reinventing the same things and then calling it new. Digital freaking transformation indeed. Cloud native. Enterprise architecture strategy. Blah. Blah
Government listens not to professionals, but to vendors. We have no voice in policy, in government contracts, in audits. Where are our reviews? Where are the unified skill standards? The recognized and accredited certifications necessary to build hospitals, energy grids, transportation?