Simon Rohrer - Modern Enterprise Architecture: architecting for outcomes "Modern Enterprise A..."

Modern Enterprise Architecture: architecting for outcomes
The modern enterprise has evolved in many ways since some of the typical Enterprise Architecture principles and practices emerged.
In this talk, Simon Rohrer will explain how the nature of the modern enterprise means many legacy Enterprise Architecture principles and practices are no longer applicable
He makes some suggestions on how a modern EA practice can incorporate agile, DevOps, Systems Thinking and socio-technical ways of working at scale to achieve both short term business value, as well as effecting long term technology and organisation transformation - supporting better value, sooner, safer and happier; breaking dependencies rather than managing them.
Simon's experience comes from on 10 years of leading and practicing Modern Enterprise Architecture in large regulated long-lived organisations with significant legacy technology estates -
Speaker: Simon Rohrer
Agile Meets Architecture 2023
www.agile-meets-architecture.com
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[@jimlack8916]

Great talk Simon, right on target, you may have saved me a presentation there. I can just share the link ;)

[@l_combo]

Simon rocks! Great talk

[@chrisbrown5263]

Great talk Simon. The comparison of fixed vs growth mindsets w.r.t. agile strikes a chord with me: too often I see frameworks, coaches, processes, etc. as evidence the "we do agile" but the organisation has missed the point completely.

[@erwinklomp4311]

Very interesting. I don't disagree with any of what Simon says but we need to factor in the organisational ability. Simon worked for me in the 90s and with a couple of other guys made up the best team i have managed. Extremely bright and like Simon said could exercise at different levels of the organisation and technical roles. In big enterprises it is much more difficult because that consistent high quality is not there. So my question is if the team has not got the skill and discipline would this not just result in failurewith potentially massive business consequences.

[@SimonRohrer]

Thanks Erwin! Hope you’re doing well!
Couldn’t agree more re team skill (there’s lots I couldn’t talk about in just 35 mins), part of what modern EAs need to do in the ‘organization architecture’ part of their role is spot and call out those skill gaps and the risks that are there if the 2-pizza teams don’t have the right technical leadership and skills within. If teams don’t have high quality and discipline, and in particular don’t have a technical lead who is a go-to person for ensuring and role-modelling that - for sure, there is failure, I still deal with this on a very frequent basis. This happens regardless of the model you choose! Happy to chat more some time :)

[@davidmason2238]

Couldn’t agree more on comments re Simon and that team! Superstars!