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ARCHITECTURAL UPS AND DOWNS AT TELEBEL
Tom Alberts, the project leader at WWW-TeleBel, has been in a con-
ference with his information engineer for the past two hours. WWW-
TeleBel is under a small cloud and, if they are not careful, it could turn
into a real thunderstorm. It started yesterday afternoon, when Tom's
boss asked to see him. His boss said that management stressed again
that WWW-TeleBel needed to comply with architectural requirements.
If that was not the case, then management would have to take action.
Considering that WWW-TeleBel was the IT department's showpiece,
Tom's boss just wanted to hear from Tom that the project was not in
trouble. Tom said what his boss wanted to hear, that the project met
the architecture as much as was possible. Nevertheless, he had been
warned and now he was asking his information engineer these burning
questions: "How can we protect the project? Can we present our design
in such a way that it complies with the architecture?"
Three floors up, Robert McCall, head of Architecture, is having a
serious conversation with his top architect, Susan Forbes. Susan has just
announced that she is leaving the company. This came as a shock to
Robert, and he is now trying to understand why she made this decision,
which is not difficult. Susan is very open:
I want to do something that delivers clear results, to make a difference
and provide real added value for my company. I really like designing
enterprise architectures, and I feel it is very interesting work. The
designing is not the problem. The problem is too little is done with it.
Everyone says "good work" when we publish an architectural docu-
ment. But then it's never used. Now and again, I feel I'm engaged
in occupational therapy. And I'm not the only one that feels this way.
I have discussed this with the others, and they feel the same way.
Strategic
Dialogue
Development
with
Architecture
Architectural
Services
New
developments
IT Solutions
Development
without
Architecture
IT Solutions
Dynamic Architecture
Business
Architecture
Information
Architecture
Technical
Architecture
Governance
DYA
Processes
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101 ARCHITECTURAL UPS AND DOWNS AT TELEBEL Tom Alberts, the project leader at WWW-TeleBel, has been in a con- ference with his information engineer for the past two hours. Strategic Dialogue Development with Architecture Architectural Services New developments IT Solutions Development without Architecture IT Solutions Dynamic Architecture Business Architecture Information Architecture Technical Architecture Governance DYA Processes c06_wagter.qxd 12/10/04 12:25 PM Page 101
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