![]() It changes if the terrain changes, it changes if you learn something from your former steps. Architecture is not a goal, it is part of a journey. Usually it is enough to take a few notes about the basic perceptions you had at the distant points of views (overview pictures and high-level concepts) and the rationale for the most important decisions – just in case you come back to that point and you want to comprehend why you did it then the way it is done.Īrchitecture as a compass also has a second meaning: Architecture is dynamic, not static. And usually you don’t need that big, thorough map at all. We usually cannot draw a complete map (i.e. more abstract) points of view, just with the goal to come back then and to say “From what I saw over there I think it’s a good idea to follow that path for a while”.Īfter that we take the next steps and then we observe again to decide about the next steps and so on: architecture as a compass. Therefore, we need to watch the environment once in a while from several distant (i.e. Architecture should be a guidance towards the right solution in a terribly complex environment where even “right” is an extremely complex thing that isn’t obvious and hard to find. Okay, it seems that it took me more than 3 years to come back to that sentence and from todays perspective I think, it actually is an important sentence – one of those timeless sentences.įrom my todays perspective it perfectly describes what architecture should be and what it shouldn’t. In brackets, I added a “Rethink that!” as a reminder for me to come back to that sentence. The sentence was: “Architecture is a compass, not a blueprint”. The sentence seemed to be so important to me at that time that I noted it down (I’m not a big note-taker, so it must have been important to me). It seems that it was a sentence from a keynote that David Robertson, a professor from the Switzerland held. But there was one sentence on one of the pages that made me pause for a while. ![]() ![]() Even though it was a great conference I decided that I don’t need most of the notes anymore and threw them away. In doing so I found some notes I took 2008 at the Enterprise Architecture Conference in London. So, this morning I spent some time sorting out things in my office at home I don’t need anymore. But as many other people after the first few days I start doing odd things, namely cleaning up things here and there. It’s christmas holidays and as many other people I use that time to goof off a bit – no big visits of relatives, no big vacation trips, just hanging around at home and making sure not to do too much at all.
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