The Elephant in the Architecture

Last week I gave one of the keynotes at O'Reilly's Software
Architecture conference. When I was invited to do this last year, I asked
my colleagues at a radar meeting dinner for suggestions on what to talk
about. They commented about how they were often asked to do architectural
assessments for clients, and almost always discovered that the architects
neglected to properly understand the business value of the systems they
were looking after. I then worked with Ian Cartwright to organize the
material both for the talk and this article: to make the case for why we
should consider business value to be a first-class architectural attribute,
and the consequences of that framing.

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