08.04.08
Politics and Architecture
An issue that constantly rears its ugly head is how you reconcile the ideals of architecture with the realities of organizational budgets, development priorities, and the existence of data and organizational silos. When selecting people with the right skills to implement SOA across their organizations, what is the right blend between skills and knowledge? More specifically, what is the best balance between organizational savvy and architectural/technology vision?
At the recent Open Group Enterprise Architects Practitioners conference held last month in Chicago, we sat with a panel led by Dana Gardner that included Eric Knorr, editor-in-chief of InfoWorld; colleague-in-combat Joe McKendrick; IBM Federal Software Group chief architect Andras Szakal; and David Cotterill, who has the enviable title but probably unenviable job as head of innovation for the U.K. Government Department for Work and Pensions, a social services agency.
You can read the transcript or download the podcast here.