Architecture enabling business

Maybe this should have been the first post on my new blog, but I didn’t want to show any (overt) signs of mental weakness too soon.

The totally bogus pseudo-word "technogility" was one of those that jumped into my head and blocked any rational thought about better alternatives (that reminds me: go read Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, if you haven’t already). My only excuse is that somehow, at least to me, the word has an intuitive connection to how technology enables business – specifically the topic I think is most important to our industry (and the subtitle of this blog).

Technology organizations are always challenged to continue to deliver value to their business partners (i.e. the proxy for the end customer, trying to figure out what they want), particularly as both the technology organization and their partners scale. Sometimes they scale differently, and sometimes the scaling is transformational – that is, one of the organizations has to radically restructure in order to continue to deliver. Agility is therefore fundamental, and brittleness is the enemy. When we create cultures, organizations, processes, tools, frameworks, etc. that are rigidly aligned to a particular mode of delivery, we put the entirety of the business at risk.