Strategy

Note This is the first article in a series of articles I intend to write that describe my interpretation and understanding of the practice of architecture in large software projects. I intend to write about the following topics in this series: Architects are Gardeners. (This article) What, more specifically IS software architecture? What do Architects or architects do? How can we build sustainable practices of architecture that in turn build sustainable architectures?...

Recently, I wrote my very first technology strategy. Overall I’d say the process went pretty well. Of course writing the strategy is intimidating to begin with, but once I started I quickly realised that the much more intimidating thing is actually working to implement the strategy after it’s written. I felt and still at times feel like fleeing to the woods to live as a wolf as a result of this realisation but I’m pretty sure my life insurance has exclusions for fleeing to the woods in order to live as a wolf....