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• ↓ The essence of architectural work - Part 7
• ↓ Leaving out the How
• ↓ No one-size-fits-all
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"The previous post concluded the discussion of the What, the essential activities of architectural work using the 4E framework as guidance."

"As I wrote in the first post of this series, I will not discuss the How of architectural work. While being a very interesting topic (and probably a topic you are also interested in), it is a huge topic. E.g., just think about collaborative modeling. It is one way to understand the business domain 1. If we map this to the 4E framework, we discussed in the prior two posts, it covers part of the Examine section of the framework. And there are many other ways to understand the business domain besides collaborative modeling (not rating their relative effectiveness). But we find roughly two dozen methods for collaborative modeling alone, some of them covering whole books."

"Just looking at this example, it becomes clear that it is impossible to cover the How of architectural work appropriately in a blog series. Additionally, I am not sure if it is possible at all to cover the essence of How. I know that we face quite a few people with strong opinions about “right” or “wrong”. Probably, those people also have a strong opinion about what is essential about How to do architectural work. Nevertheless, I am not one of them."

"Personally, I think there is a reason why this field is so huge. I think a “right” method, the essential method does not exist. Many good methods exist for all four core activities of the 4E framework and their sub-activities. It is the concrete context in which method A may be more suitable than method B. Still, that does not mean that method A is always better than method B. It is just more suitable in the given context. In a different context, method B might be the more appropriate choice."

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The essence of architectural work - Part 7

Leaving out the How

No one-size-fits-all

Uncertainty

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