Possibly bad tweet sized summary of EA. It is:
- magical process to create magical big document
- Inventory of all apps in org
- A bunch of smart people who have to think up some additional things to be useful, such as mandating/prohibiting the uses of certain tech/versions/etc
Because EA is based on a magical process, people can project onto it anything they want to. You think EA is like a technical lead for all technical leads? It is! You think it is an inventory of data dictionaries and app arch diagrams? It is! It is whatever you want it to be.
♡ 0 ↻ 0I read a metric crap ton of of Buddhist philosophy. For a 1000 year period, Imperial China funded Buddhist monks to do practical magic, make rain, protect the boarders by *chanting*. An imperial bureaucrat wrote a famous document saying this was no way to run a government.
♡ 0 ↻ 0The source EA documents reminds me more than anything of the prose tricks you find in the description of practical magic-magic that (claims) to do use stuff--lots of words that are never operationalized to concrete meanings. Because if you did, you'd see there was no there, there
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