Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Enterprise Architecture and Self-Organizing Teams
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams yet the opposite principle is built into the organizational models of large enterprises...
Since someone needs to be the boss, why not make it the enterprise architecture team who can then be empowered to mandate best practices. Don't get it twisted and take this serious. The blogosphere though needs to stop talking about nomenclature and start talking about solutions. I wonder how many enterprise architects when they meet with their bosses ever talk about:
| | View blog reactionsSince someone needs to be the boss, why not make it the enterprise architecture team who can then be empowered to mandate best practices. Don't get it twisted and take this serious. The blogosphere though needs to stop talking about nomenclature and start talking about solutions. I wonder how many enterprise architects when they meet with their bosses ever talk about:
- Changing the culture so that self-organization is a fundamental principle
- Achieving a purpose without the need for a
leadersmanagers direction - How to focus on people, then process, then tools - in that order
