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The Ivory Tower Enterprise Architect
posted by John Spacey, April 02, 2011
The ivory tower enterprise architect (EA) produces dreamy architectures that are detached from IT, business and budgetary realities.
Motivation
It is natural to want to produce elegant architectures. However, it is seldom possible to implement such designs due to politics, business needs and budget constraints.
Result
The ivory tower EA tends to concentrate on long term roadmaps and fails to identify realistic opportunities and transition architectures. The result is a enterprise architecture that has little or no impact. Solution architects ignore the architecture because they are given no implementation path.
When projects fail — the ivory tower architect does not feel responsible since the enterprise architecture was largely ignored.
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