37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation

Table of Contents About this Book Fifty Shades of IT Architects The Architect Elevator Movie Star Architects Enterprise Architect or Architect in the Enterprise? An Architect Stands on Three Legs Making Decisions Question Everything Architecture Your Coffee Shop Does Not Use 2-Phase Commit Is this Architecture? Every System is Perfect... Code Fear Not! If You Never Kill Anything, You Will Live Among Zombies The IT World is Flat Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job If Software Eats the World, Better Use Version Control! Communication Explaining Stuff Writing for Busy People Emphasis over Completeness Show the Kids the Pirate Ship! Sketching Bank Robbers Diagram-Driven Design Drawing the Line Organizations Control is an Illusion They don't build'em quite like that anymore Black Markets Are Not Efficient Scaling an Organization Slow Chaos is not Order Governance Through Inception Transformation No Pain, no Change! Leading Change Economies of Speed The Infinite Loop You can't fake IT Money can’t buy Love Who Likes Standing in Line? Thinking in Four Dimensions Architecting IT Transformation All I Have to Offer Is the Truth