The Make-or-Break Architecture Landscapes for CTOs

An enterprise architecture inventory is a comprehensive record of elements across the architectural layers within an organization’s tech landscape.

It includes business processes, applications, data interfaces, software components, but also covers system ownership and interactions with end-users.

Having a shared, aligned, and up-to-date inventory is critical. It ensures that all teams are on the same page, reduces redundancy, and improves efficiency.

This inventory is yet easy to say, but hard to achieve and maintain at scale due to the complexity of actors, systems and their rapid pace of change.

This article focuses on the main areas for a CTO to look for to grasp the systemic complexity, especially on grey areas between business, product and engineering.

The Challenges of Capturing Value Streams up to Internal Products

Capturing value streams up to the internal products is challenging due to the transversal knowledge and expertise required.

Mapping these processes accurately requires:

• Deep understanding of the business and products
• Capacity to step back to abstract local complexity