| John Zachman said: |
I am DELIGHTED to hear of your formation!!
I have recently been in Europe where I spoke at a public conference and after speaking, a man came up to me and was very complimentary. He said something like, "I have heard you speak a number of times and it is always great!! It makes so much sense. And, I love your passion on the subject .. BUT, r e a l l y now, ... this architecture stuff, you're just kidding, right? I mean, it's really just theory, of course. That is, it's so impractical ... all this 'documentation,' models, I mean, reality is all about code ... right?"
Tragically, this seems to be the prevailing attitude in the technology world today. Even if we don't actually believe it, this mis-perception still tends to govern many people's behavior even when the absence of architecture lies at the heart of so many of the modern enterprise problems. The technology culture that has evolved over the last 50 years or so, so aptly captured in the cartoon caption, "You start writing the code and I'll go find out what the users have in mind" seems impossible to change. I heard someone say that one definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results!
I would argue, we are never going to solve the enterprise problems of dealing with orders of magnitude increases in complexity and orders of magnitude increases in the rate of change until we not only believe that architecture is practical but, we actually change our behavior and DO it.
Clearly, in this "Information Age" Architecture is the gate you are going to have to go through just to stay in the game!!
I wish you the VERY BEST ... and look forward to hearing of your eminent success!!
Regards,
John A. Zachman
|
