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Six Sure Fire Ways to Sink your Enterprise Architecture

September 23, 2007 By brenda michelson

1. Include the words “always” and “never” in your architectural principles and policies

2. Believe positional authority trumps ability to influence

3. Practice methodology without anthropology

4. Hire an innovator and proceed to micromanage him/her

5. Utilize crowd wisdom for decision making rather than intelligence collection

6. View your architecture as an end, rather than a means

 

[Note: This post originally appeared on my Business-Driven Architect blog on September 23, 2007, brought over to elemental links on June 7, 2008]

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  1. James says

    June 8, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    You should repost this one but add a seventh method: using process as a substitute for competence…

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