Renato’s posterous

Now lets get into a little detail about each of the perspectives:

The Enterprise Perspective Generally held by: Enterprise and Business Architects Director or higher in IT Basic assumptions Architecture is modeling the business Architecture supports cost savings, standards and governance Tend to focus on TOGAF and Zachman Overuse and focus on the enterprise and executive level and leave out lower levels Standard-bearer: The Open Group, IBM	The Agile Perspective Generally held by: Senior Developers and Software Architects Non-management level in IT Basic assumptions Architecture is a quick iterative process focused on getting to coding (the XP ‘spike’) Architecture is just to make development easier Overuse and focus on the writing code (EAs must code 50% or more) Standard-bearer: Agile Alliance, Thoughtworks
The Engineer Perspective Generally held by: Senior Engineers and Software Architects Non-management level in IT Basic assumptions Architecture is advanced engineering and science Architecture focuses on quality attribute optimization (performance, reliability) Overuse and focus on the system or system of systems, structure and ‘algorithmic’ software Standard-bearer: SEI, IEEE, OMG	The Vendors Perspective Generally held by: Management level in IT Vendor employees Basic assumptions Architecture is about appropriate product or framework selection Focus on a single product or technology stack (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, JEE, .Net) Almost always select ‘Buy’ over ‘Build’ and tend to focus more on vendor relations than staff Standard-bearer: Product and platform vendors
The Services Perspective Generally held by: Management level in IT Service vendor employees Basic assumptions Architecture is utilization of existing service provider solutions Focus on process and methodology from service provider(Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Infosys, etc) Company X has already built that for 50 clients we can easily build it for you Standard-bearer: IBM, Microsoft, HP, Infosys, etc	The Cult of Personality Perspective Generally held by: Random Basic assumptions Architecture is whatever the thought leader says it is (Zachman, Bredemeyer, Clements, Bass, Ambler, Booch, etc) Focus on a specific framework or set of processes invented by the leader Attempt to convert all others to this thinking and rejects different ideas Standard-bearer: Zachman, Bredemeyer, other thought leaders

 

You did a great job,
Thanks Paul