Friday, February 23, 2007
What kind of enterprise architect are you?
Jeremy Miller classified folks when it comes to coding philosophies into two general camps...
I am definetely in the second camp as I haven't yet drinken the Kool-Aid on most things in camp one with the sole exception of Business Rules Engines. I guess enterprise architects who are in the second camp are a dying breed and are the ones blogging in the blogosphere while the former camp are the ones who aresuccessful getting promoted in today's magazine-oriented architecture culture.
Whenever one describes things in terms of extremes (camps), someone sooner or later comes by with the hybridism pattern and totally misses the point. Anyway, I wonder if I am still relevant, in the wrong profession or simply need to get with the program...
| | View blog reactions- Camp #1: Coding is too hard, so let's not write code anymore. Model Driven Architecture, Executable UML, Business Rules engines, BPM, Rapid Application Development
- Camp #2: Coding is too hard, so let's make coding easier and more productive. Refactoring tools, dynamic languages, TDD, Continuous Integration, Ruby on Rails, etc.
I am definetely in the second camp as I haven't yet drinken the Kool-Aid on most things in camp one with the sole exception of Business Rules Engines. I guess enterprise architects who are in the second camp are a dying breed and are the ones blogging in the blogosphere while the former camp are the ones who are
Whenever one describes things in terms of extremes (camps), someone sooner or later comes by with the hybridism pattern and totally misses the point. Anyway, I wonder if I am still relevant, in the wrong profession or simply need to get with the program...
