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The Survivor's Guide to Enterprise Architecture
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The Survivor's Guide to Enterprise Architecture

by Chloë Gray, Martin Sykes, Paul Homan
February 2025
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 35m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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26 GETTING STUFF DONE

A common challenge heard while developing this section is the complaint of too many obstacles to getting ‘things’ done. We’ve clustered these into five groups:

  • You cannot control every aspect of changes.
  • There are some uncomfortable conversations that you might really want to avoid.
  • You’re really busy, but not making an impact.
  • Too many things could go wrong.
  • Too many diverse opinions that need bringing together.

With the following guidance we show how all of these can be solved, but you might have to make some hard choices.

YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL

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It’s okay to be a control freak. Just don’t be a control freak.

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