37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation

Table of Contents
About this Book
Fifty Shades of IT
Architects
	The Architect Elevator
	Movie Star Architects
	Enterprise Architect or Architect in the Enterprise?
	An Architect Stands on Three Legs
	Making Decisions
	Question Everything
Architecture
	Your Coffee Shop Does Not Use 2-Phase Commit
	Is this Architecture?
	Every System is Perfect…
	Code Fear Not!
	If You Never Kill Anything, You Will Live Among Zombies
	The IT World is Flat
	Never Send a Human to Do a Machine\'s Job
	If Software Eats the World, Better Use Version Control!
Communication
	Explaining Stuff
	Writing for Busy People
	Emphasis over Completeness
	Show the Kids the Pirate Ship!
	Sketching Bank Robbers
	Diagram-Driven Design
	Drawing the Line
Organizations
	Control is an Illusion
	They don\'t build\'em quite like that anymore
	Black Markets Are Not Efficient
	Scaling an Organization
	Slow Chaos is not Order
	Governance Through Inception
Transformation
	No Pain, no Change!
	Leading Change
	Economies of Speed
	The Infinite Loop
	You can\'t fake IT
	Money can’t buy Love
	Who Likes Standing in Line?
	Thinking in Four Dimensions
Architecting IT Transformation
	All I Have to Offer Is the Truth