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The Architecture Paradigm

What is Architecture

Purpose

Its Not What You Think
Structural Complexity
Transformational Volatility
Transformational Complexity
Contextual Volatility and Complexity

Justification

Applicability
Cost and Ability
Investment
Procrastination

Architecture and Engineering

Yin and Yang
Architect Horizontally Engineer Vertically
Overlap
Inter Phase

Culture

Culture

Architects and Engineers

Fundamentals
Comparison
Architects and Engineers Who Are You

The Architect

Secrets
An Impossible Job
What Does An Architect Do
Architect or Charlatan
The Pragmatic Architect Creed
       
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Many times when explaining what Architecture is, people use the building analogy. Imagine you built a house without a master plan, by continuously adding and changing it over a long period of time without a broad plan of what you were doing. You might end up with something like this:

¨      160 rooms, 40 bedrooms and 2 ballrooms.

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Keypoint

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Any “good” Architecture ONLY EXISTS to fulfil a customer’s needs.

Enterprise Architect: Realise that good Architecture is defined by the client, not the Architect.

Questions to ponder...

Can you think of other architectures that are actually good but look terrible?

What is a better architecture for roads? The USA system of perpendicular roads with many crossroads and single roads between places or the British system that is more akin to a redundant network?



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