Index

PF2

Head

Introduction

Introduction

Companies

Overview
Pragmatic EC
Licensing

Training

Certification Courses
Focused Workshops
Options

Pragmatic Publishing Platform

Overview
Design

PEFF

Language

Language

Basics

I Didnt Mean What You Heard
What is a System
What is an Enterprise
What is Transformation
What is a Framework
Theory or Practice
Colours
What is Business Architecture Enterprise Architecture Solution Architecture

POET

Items

Architecture and Engineering

Yin and Yang
Architect Horizontally Engineer Vertically
Overlap
Inter Phase

Culture

Culture

Organisation Structure

Management

Culture Trumps Everything

For Better or Worse
The Power of Culture
Immense Problems
Immense Opportunities

Slaves to Psychology

What Do You Think
Is All Value Easy to See
I Was Only Doing What I was Told
Are You Better Than a 5 Year Old
Who Decides
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
Style over Substance
The Halo Horn Effect
Cognitive Dissonance
The Dunning Kruger Effect
The Peter Principle
The Matthew Effect
Prices Law
The Best Managers Are Sociopaths
Personality Traits
The Prisons of Two Ideas
Logical Fallacies

Architects and Engineers

Fundamentals
Comparison
Architects and Engineers Who Are You

The Architect

Secrets
An Impossible Job
What Does An Architect Do
Architect or Charlatan
The Pragmatic Architect Creed
Language

PEAF

Culture

Organisation Structure

Traditional vs Pragmatic

Enterprise Architect

Two Types

Type 1

Requirements
Duties

Type 2

Requirements
Duties

The Management vs The Workers

Most Valued Player MVP
Comparison

IT vs The Business

Is IT Special

What vs How
Yes But Not Because its IT
When Two Tribes Go To War
Should IT Ever Say No to The Business
Comparison

Roles

Overview
SIB Strategic Investment Board
EASG Enterprise Architecture Steering Group

PF2

Appendix

Appendix
Background
The Author
Keypoints
Sources and Resources
Tail
       
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In practice, there is of course an overlap between Architecture and Engineering. The overlap may be small or may be large depending on the problem in hand. This tends to decide whether one person is required to perform both roles or if two people who specialise in each are required.

In this day and age, thinking about things seems to be viewed as a very bad thing as no discernible progress is being made. It should be noted that all the major advancements since time began have come from people thinking about things rather than doing - at least initially. This is not to say that everyone should sit around thinking about things and not doing anything. Doing things informs thinking and thinking informs doing. This is the yin and yang where balance must be achieved for best results and progress. No one ever suggested that people should stop doing things, but it is common for people to suggest that people should stop thinking about things “Just do it!” - not explicitly because when you say it explicitly, as I have just done, it sounds ludicrous in the extreme, but in practice, in life, in the day to day run of things, thinking is routinely put on the back burner as the next urgent (but probably unimportant) thing becomes the focus.

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Keypoint

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The line between Architecture and Engineering is a blurred one.

C-Suite: Instigate training so that people recognise that Architecture and Engineering overlap.

Questions to ponder...

Do you agree that Architecture is more about Why, while engineering is more about How?

What do other people in your Enterprise believe?

If there is not a common understanding, does this create problems?

If so, what is the impact of those problems?





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