Gregor Hohpe Quotes

Enterprise architects in the cloud enterprise should depart from prescriptive roles to become cloud advocates in the boardroom and sparring partners in the engine room.

Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companies have even begun to explicitly favor duplication because their business environment rewards economies of speed.

The most powerful models are the simplest. A good model simplifies and abstracts, providing clarity rather than confusion.

On my team we often reminded ourselves that for each task we have two goals: first, accomplish the task, but also to improve the way it’s done in the future.

EA must help operationalize the cloud strategy. Because applications in a typical enterprise portfolio aren’t equally portable to the cloud, enterprise architects should help establish the criteria and guidelines that can be used to assess an application’s cloud readiness, using frameworks like FROSST.

Packaging change into projects reflects an organization’s belief that “no change” is the normal, desired state and “change” is the intermittent, unusual state.

Good architects, therefore, deal with change. This means that they live in the system’s first derivative: the mathematical expression for how quickly a function’s value changes.