I told the story, recently, about a large architecture document I received to review. It’s a story that I think is worth retelling … After poring through a few hundred pages of text and drawings, I was impressed by how much work and thought had gone into it yet how utterly useless it was. Now, don’t get me wrong: it’s not that architecture is unimportant; quite the opposite. The classic, big architecture document is just the wrong way to deliver it. I had hoped that the industry had gotten past these kinds of deliverables; apparently I was wrong. Perhaps nothing is more drawn out and aggravating for an IT organization than what I call “death …

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