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T. GravesEveryday Enterprise Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8904-4_8

8. Day 8: Putting It into Practice

Tom Graves1  
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Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia
 

Here at last we reach the point where things actually happen in the real world and – to the delight of business-folk – the real value is delivered. And here, often, one of the main tasks of architecture is to keep out of the way…

In the implementation stage of a conventional large project, the architecture is already supposed to be complete: all that’s left is to ensure compliance to the plan. The usual way to do this is via “gateway reviews”: at each stage the project-lead presents a formal statement ...

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