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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		8/22/2003; 4:02:51 PM
Topic:		Enterprise Architect Summit Speaker Interview
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Enterprise Architect Summit Speaker Interview #

From the interview:

FTPOnline: What's the biggest issue faced by enterprise architects?
Racca: In general, the biggest issue is managing complexity. This general issue has several manifestations: complexity in the security arena, complexity in managing end-to-end processes in a set of disparate applications and platforms, complexity in managing several platform strategies, complexity in managing cross-application and cross-platform projects. There's no doubt that much can be done by standardizing on a reduced set of applications and platforms, but even so, complexity is here to stay because the IT market has grown as a specialized market, not as a generalist market. Specialized software is always construed to be the silver bullet, but in our day and age we all know it isn't. Architects need to avoid the chant of specialized sirens and they themselves need to be specialized in being generalists. [Emphasis mine]

Posted by Raymond Yee on 8/22/03; 4:02:53 PM
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