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This is the Dutch translation of the article: "Everyone is an architect".

Soms kom ik mensen tegen die zich introduceren met: "Ik ben een architect."

Ik reageer vaak met: "Iedereen is een architect".

Waarom?

Een architect is niet een label voor een bepaald type persoon. Nou...

In general companies have installed an executive hierarchy. This hierarchy is one that has been evolved and tested over a long period of time. We have reasonably clear ideas about what it should establish. People have one boss, who more or less decides about their roles, assesses their performance, ...

(Americans often refer to a method with the term "methodology", which is not entirely correct semantically, as it would mean "the science of methods")

Examples of methods are ORM, RUP, and one could argue Scrum or agile approaches like DAD.

Inspired by the book by Ian Graham et.al....

Society is undergoing fundamental changes.

This is not unique for our time and age, but both speed and depth of these changes are probably greater than we have seen in centuries.

Enterprises are, whether they want it or not, both party and subject in these changes.

The way businesses were organised in ...

Again I was struck by the tendency of many "experts" to use too much. They have a bag-of-tricks which for some reason needs to be used exhaustively. And the tools and frameworks do mention (sometimes) that you need to tailor them, but that doesn't stick. If it's there, it's there for a rea...