Dissolve the EA team

To dissolve the EA team, is that a good idea?

Marc Thomas asked on LinkedIn what you would do if you had unlimited resources.

My suggestion was to remove the architecture team but I only gave a partial answer of why.

First of all, the value of Enterprise Architecture is zero if there is no change, thus no need for EA.

Second, if you have unlimited resources, the need from savings using enterprise architecture to govern a transformation is null.

Third, if the organization doesn’t understand the value of architecture and more see the architects as a hurdle, then we can dissolve the EA team.

But, and this is a huge one.

You can’t throw more people and money on problems that comes from complexity. Not even the biggest software companies in the world succeed with that, without a long term architecture thinking.

Not to forget the pipe dream of unlimited resources in a world where most companies struggles with margins below 10%.

The bottom line is if your EA team doesn’t provide any value to the organization, then you should dissolve it. But don’t expect your problems to vanish in the air.