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.