Making It Work in the Organization

Summary

In this chapter, the authors first discuss the organizational structure around systems architecting and then provide some recipes from their own experience for making systems architecting work in the organization. They focus on approaches that can help creating buy‐in for systems architecting on a peer‐to‐peer level. The organizational structure or organization structure means the “formal patterns of how people and jobs are grouped in an organization”. The organization needs to be designed individually, based on the specifics of the business, the enabling systems, the maturity of systems architecting in the organization, and many more factors. Important organizational interfaces for the system architect are the ones to the architecture stakeholders. Systems architects ensure that the definitions in the system architecture and the chosen architectural patterns are being followed.