My good friend Harjinder makes some excellent points in his comment to my post on politics and people, not least of which is he points out the challenges of a supplier "doing the right things right" (ie architecture) when engaged by an enterprise to design and deliver a new or enhanced IT based business system.
Almost all of this blog has ignored this dynamic; assuming the context was "the enterprise" and its architects. Adding in the "supplier" dimension adds a whole new challenge when the enterprise's architecture governance processes are broken or missing (which is the underlying cause of the symptoms Harjinder documents).
And there's a further complication even if there is good architecture on the client enterprise - whose reference designs will the supplier want to use? Their own (which they know well and can be confident in), or those of the client which may include "foreign" building blocks? A particular challenge if the supplier is focused on development and deployment, and not subsequent delivery and change!
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