A Community of Like Minds
Next-Practice Architecture?

I'm excited to join the not-for-profit Architectural Thinking community this week following a great Zoom session with Milan Guenther and Philip Hellyer.
Here are the community principles so far:
We act sustainable and as ONE enterprise
Solutions are built with a company wide focus rather than in business unit silos.
Inter-divisional functionalities are implemented in company wide platforms, not in several isolated applications.
Business goals and value streams drive our application landscape
We implement the ‘right’ projects - those with business values we believe in.
We use structured business analysis, business architecture and innovation methods early in the ideation process.
We focus on simplicity
We implement solutions that are as simple as possible.
Our applications focus on the essence.
We do not reinvent the wheel
We check if existing applications can be reused before implementing new ones.
We look for standard solutions before implementing on our own.
We work permanently on making business & IT more flexible to change
We reduce technical debt by a ‘managed evolution’ approach.
We turn off applications with a bad business value / cost ratio.
We modularize our application landscape to keep it agile.
We permanently optimize our product/service portfolio for simplicity.