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Anti-Architecture. Anti – as in antidote. Perspective …. I’m Spartacus Director for Strategy & Architecture for Corporate IT, Glaxo SmithKline HR, Finance, Legal, Communications … Live web TV service Interfaces to MRP (SAP), BU’s. 30 years of ineffectual waffle. GSK Architecture Council
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Anti-Architecture Anti – as in antidote
Perspective … • I’m Spartacus • Director for Strategy & Architecture for Corporate IT, Glaxo SmithKline • HR, Finance, Legal, Communications … • Live web TV service • Interfaces to MRP (SAP), BU’s
30 years of ineffectual waffle • GSK Architecture Council • ABPI – architecture Group • Gartner/Forrester – Architecture Communities • TOGAF, Zachman • The only group less popular than Project Managers !
30 years of ineffectual waffle • Always ‘jam tomorrow’ • Things will be simpler, smoother, cheaper, seamless • Data will flow, knowledge will flourish, business will bloom • In reality • Rules, constraints, delays • Sacrifice your approach and technology now ….. for the greater good of everyone tomorrow ….. but ’tomorrow never comes’
Arriving at Warwick …. • Deliberate decision to avoid ‘architecture’ • No Architect role or group • Informal ‘Design Group’ on major projects • Architecture is delegated down to individual service domains • Platforms teams decide their own architecture for their server provisioning service • Storage teams decide their storage architecture (they are hidden from the UNIX team architecture, as they just consume their service)
Where’s the LDA ? • There is no neat architecture map • Instead there are “hidden” local architectures • Undoubtedly we are not as architecturally efficient as we could be – we have re-work, duplication
How we progress Goal The Theory Goal The Experience Goal The Practice