Confessions of an Enterprise Architect • Scott Shaw • YOW! 2016

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Scott Shaw - Head of Technology at Thoughtworks ‪@thoughtworks‬
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ABSTRACT
Having worked in and around the software development business for many years, gaining a certain amount of grey hair and experience along the way, I’m often asked to help out teams struggling under the sometimes onerous and dogmatic restrictions of corporate IT.
Years of these engagements led to a sort of messianic complex; Me-righteous defender of software craft- locked in epic struggle with evil strictures of enterprise architecture. But lately the tables have turned. Faced with challenges of business reality, regulatory compliance, and organisational complexity, I found myself committing some of the same acts I might have once condemned.
This talk gives me an opportunity to confess some of those behaviours, explain why they’re sometimes necessary in a large and complex corporate environment and offer some ways they might be done differently. [...]
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[@kenigiri]

Humorous but great confessions.

[@EelcoZomer]

Cool video! So right

[@kenigiri]

Huh...
But architects in most other engineering professions . Or is the argument that engineers don't progress to architects in other engineering professions?

[@testme2026]

I disagree on the COTS slide, inhouse building code is outdated, almost everything now available in API or SaaS! you need to ensure a robust due diligence in picking the right solution.