| The New EA - Less Is More | |
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007
01:15 PM-02:00 PM | |
Speaker: Nicholas Gall
Location: Pavilion 2
Session Type: Keynote Session
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 Despite the best intentions, the standards proliferated by enterprise architects gain the reputation of being impediments to agility. Given the decades of struggle to establish the value of EA, clearly a new approach is needed. It starts with the understanding that enterprise architects are first and foremost "change agents." This leads directly to a "less is more" approach, in which fewer but more essential EA constraints enable greater simplicity and agility where it matters most. Such a "less is more" approach turns the traditional top-down command-and-control approach to architecture on its head, resulting in a middle-out inversion of control. |
Key Issues:
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- What is “middle-out" architecture and why do we need it?
- How does the “inversion-of-control” principle reconcile top-down and middle-out architecture?
- What are the emerging examples of such an approach?
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