Gerben Wierda wrote “Don’t be an Enterprise Architect” on LinkedIn. I understand his thinking as what we do is a sisyfos task.

Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do, but you need both patience and passion to be an Enterprise Architect.

During tweenty years, there has been only a few home runs with client projects.

The biggest challenges is as always the resistance to change in the organisation and different priorities between business units.

Technology is not the problem. With the caveat that you need to understand it to know what is possible, how long time it takes and the cost.

As people in general want to do as they always done, you will not win the popular vote as you question their ways of working. This is why you need a skin thick as an elephant when it comes to critique.

If you instead take the approach to be popular, then your challenge is to get changes done, that are aligned within the company.

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