If you ask an engineer, "Do me need to know all details", the answer is probably yes. If you put forward the same question to an entrepreneur will the answer often be no. If you ask an Enterprise Architect, his answer should be "It depends".

We have a very clear management descision about to use best practices within the industry and standard systems unless it gives a very clear competetive advantage.

If we are changing something in our organisation, then there are seven simple questions that we have to answer.

We are many human beings around the globe that speaks different languages and within our profession is it the same. We use different words to describe same things and same words to describe different things. Tube, Subway and Metro are common word to describe a rail-transportation system in cities and their surroundings. If you as a Swede ask a german speaking colleague for öl, you will probably get oil instead of the supposed beer.

In science or in research, you experiment and find out new ways to fail, until it works. For some architects, this is very much like the efforts in their organizations.