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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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All things have a level of Structural Complexity

Structural Complexity is not the same as size or quantity but can be related. Structural Complexity is more a function of the number of different things and the number of relationships between them.

For example, a typical car park might contain 500 parts (cars) but the car park has low complexity because a) they are all cars - things of the same type and b) the only relationships that exist between them are from each car to its immediate neighbour or from each car to a map.

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Structural Complexity is a function of the number of things something is composed of, and the number of relationships between them.

Questions to ponder...

Are you aware of your Enterprise’s Structural Complexity?

How would you define it?

How would you measure it?

Do you care?



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