The Legacy of Ivory Tower Architects
Much has been written, comments and discussed on the interaction of Ivory Tower Architectures and project teams. Certain organisations I’ve worked for have unfortunately built departments of architectures who are so disconnected from the business, with obvious consequences – the business builds their own IT mini department/team. Relevance offers an old blog posting with some useful thought on capturing architecture decisions on an agile project – particularly useful on multi-year projects.
Large documents are never kept up to date. Small, modular documents have at least a chance at being updated
Tales from a Trading Desk 