Ed the Enterprise Architect

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Dain Hansen's Blog | February 1, 2008   5:29 PM | Comments (0)

I’ve written many blogs about myself – my favorite subject – but never do I write about you! How selfish of me.

Who are you again?

Well perhaps I’ve lost touch with you over the years. You’re Edward. You’re an Enterprise Architect. That’s with a capital A along with a capital E for Enterprise.

And not just any architect will do. You have a diversity of IT & development experience under your belt, but at the same time, you’re always thinking how to make your business more efficient. You’re the champion that seeks to raise the bar in the organization in both IT as well as setting the right alignment between IT & the various line of businesses in your organization. You manage and choreograph enterprise-wide architectures; you make infrastructure recommendations that will either make or break your company. Let’s just say that you’re the one person in the company that knows how to use PPT, excel, and still can write code (but choses not to).

You’re probably one of the few people who goes home at night thinking about big problems no one else can grasp; they’re technical challenges but at the same time they’re rooted in business problems as well. In fact, the technical challenges are probably the least of your headaches right now. It is a lonely world championing problems that few can relate to.

Lately you’re losing sleep over these types of problems:

• I get SOA, but how do I get folks in the organization to embrace it?
• How do I manage the chaos I inherited?
• Consolidate vs. End of Life vs. simply walk away.
• Security is something no one thinks about.
• Are my applications compliant to the policies I set? – Oh wait is there actually a policy framework?

Yes, all your multiple advanced degrees in Masters Computer Science, MIS, MBAs can’t help you. You turn to your Magic Eight ball and no luck. You’ve got few people you can even turn to on these challenges. I’ve got some unsolicited advice for you Ed and here goes:

Architecture comes at you fast, remember to take a moment and smell the infrastructure you got; leverage a small piece of what you have and turn it into something re-usable. Do that one small thing and those around you will thank you for it.

Feel free to give me a shout, or turn to other Architects here in Arch2Arch, even if Ed is not your name, I’d love to hear from you!

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