tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017561465938084085.post8618550003016616939..comments2023-07-25T15:03:21.987+02:00Comments on Strategic Architecture: Explaining principles, and making them workAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18006311231488200413noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017561465938084085.post-67408811131487527772010-12-04T11:24:37.394+01:002010-12-04T11:24:37.394+01:00Good point, though sometimes it's hard to arri...Good point, though sometimes it's hard to arrive to definite conclusionsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017561465938084085.post-47889422917085282782010-09-26T01:38:00.634+02:002010-09-26T01:38:00.634+02:00Genial brief and this post helped me alot in my co...Genial brief and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Thank you as your information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017561465938084085.post-87282137551929971072010-09-14T06:09:12.030+02:002010-09-14T06:09:12.030+02:00Took me time to read the whole article, the articl...Took me time to read the whole article, the article is great but the comments bring more brainstorm ideas, thanks.<br /><br />- JohnsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7017561465938084085.post-21421840288286777802010-09-11T12:39:56.308+02:002010-09-11T12:39:56.308+02:00Useful indeed - especially the analogy with music....Useful indeed - especially the analogy with music.<br /><br />For an architecture, I often view principles as layered expansions and expressions of the enterprise vision and values. One of the key points is, as you say, that principles can generally be validated and tested-against, whereas the vision and even the values themselves cannot.<br /><br />Another important aspect is the degree of compliance to the original architecture (or musical-score, in your symphony analogy). In the first of your two video examples, the score is followed precisely 'as written'; in the second, the interpretation is much more loose, with alternate orchestration, different emphases, and even ad-lib improvisation around the same theme. Someone else might even use just the opening bars as the basis for a fundamentally different piece, but returning at times to the original score so as to re-establish the connection with the 'architecture' of the original symphony. (Bach sometimes requests this explicitly - such as in one of the Brandenburgs, I believe? - where the actual score for one movement consists solely of the opening bars - the rest of the segment is intended to be improvisation on the opening theme.) These could be the musical equivalents of the MoSCoW requirements-compliance set: Must, Should, Could, known-to-Work.<br /><br />The musical analogy also seems a good one to describe the concept of principles to a more general audience: well worth developing further, I think?Tom Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526969814702899986noreply@blogger.com