'Methods don’t Work' was one of the brilliant statements of the famous Dutch information architect Jaap van Rees, published in 1982. This statement seems semantically rather trivial for only living beings can act. But Jaap van Reesmeant that following a method in a mechanical way does not lead to a suitableresult in the considered situation.
Moreover Jaap emphasized that using a method is often regrettably mixed up with having craftsmanship.
To me, as an architecture auditor, a method looks like the side wheels for a child, learning to bike or the rollator for an extinguished practitioner having troubles to oversee the situation under study.
So, dear architects do remove having a TOGAF certificate from your linked in profile or your career description. Then you display a much higher level of maturity.
According to Jaap the core competences of an architect are (1) to observe thereal needs in the business situation, (2) to manage and direct the visualization process, (3) to design in a simple and user friendly way, (4) to know which constructions are irresponsible, (5) to write unambiguously the specifications for the engineers and the builders.
In my work as an architecture auditor I often meet a lack of genuine creativity.
During my initial architecture visit in a company I start with a quick glanceto the architects population, to the architectural visualizations and to the architecture processes. In that order!
The maturity of the architects and the proper structure of the population of archtects are the absolute success factor in digital architecture.
I am very interested in receiving your reactions.
Which are the most important skills of an architect according to you and which are the main principles behind an effective architect population?
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7 年To answer the question what the most important skill is: I would say it is asking thoughtful questions and helping people understand complex and/or complicated problems in the process. Then, from that understanding, an architect can design and communicate solutions that matter to the stakeholders. These solutions consider both the business, information and technology layer of the problem.
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7 年Agree, methodes do not work, it is people that work, but smart Application of proven methods saves time on reinventing wheels. Time that can be spend on creativity
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7 年Sorry Daan, maar ik kan me hier absoluut niet in vinden, methodes geven duidelijkheid en richting, zeker voor stakeholders die de denkrichtingen moeten kunnen volgen. Dit is juist de oplossing voor het verkleinen van de business IT gap. Zorg dat je de methode borgt in een tooling, die visiualuseerd naar de verschillende gebruikers toe.
Correction. LinkedIn does not allow me to post a link in its app on my iPAD. However from my PC it DOES allow me to do that. Please find here my blog "Fasttrack to IT performance" with the "Don't methods work" article in it : https://performanceengineeringcapacitymanagement.wordpress.com/2017/10/21/dont-methods-work/
I don’t agree with you Daan. See my blog “Don’t methods work”. Unfortunately LinkedIn does not allow me to post a link here but I am sure you can find it as you are in my network.